Those lines of code are simple, so you can easily test them from the Scala REPL: With MacOS 10.14.5 and Scala 2.12.8 the notification looks like this: Val code = Array('osascript', '-e', command) Val command = '''display notification 'Hello, world' with title 'Scala' sound name 'Purr' ''' Running from Scala (or Java)Ī great thing is that you can run AppleScript scripts from Scala and Java as well. You can add sound name to that command as well. For example, this AppleScript code:ĭisplay notification 'Hello, world' with title 'Hello' subtitle 'world' You can also add a title and subtitle to your notifications.

How to add a title and subtitle to your notification You can see the sounds available on your system with this ls command (using the Terminal): For instance, the “Purr” sound is good, so my notification code looks like this:ĭisplay notification 'Hello, world' sound name 'Purr' Just use the first part of each file name to trigger the desired sound. Glass.aiff - good (like the end of a timer) I have these sounds on my current OS X 10.9 system:īasso.aiff - good, but error-like (low keys on keyboard) I don’t like the default sound, so I dug around and found that you can use the names of sounds in the /System/Library/Sounds folder. With this code, the notification window looks the same as before, and you’ll also hear a sound when it’s displayed. You can add sounds to your notifications by adding the sound name command, like this:ĭisplay notification 'Hello, world' sound name 'default' AppleScript: Mac notification with a sound If you’re comfortable writing AppleScript, this part is straightforward. Running this code creates a notification in the MacOS Notification Center that looks like this: The code looks like this in the AppleScript Editor: To get started, here’s the code for a basic “Hello, world” AppleScript notification:

A “Hello, world” MacOS AppleScript notification Near the end of the tutorial I show how to invoke the AppleScript code using Scala, so feel free to skip down to there if you just want to see that - you can always read the stuff at the top for reference later. In this article it helps if you already know a little bit about AppleScript, though that’s not completely necessary. Summary: This tutorial demonstrates how to fire macOS system notifications with AppleScript and Scala (or Java). Using an ad blocker? just a $2 donation at will help keep this site running

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