That ListenUp! I wrote last night? Bah. Too limited. So, in about an hour's worth of work today, I reimplemented it.

It registers to listen for all NSNotifications (by declaring an observer without a particular event name or object, it will listen for all events), and provides a nice search box for filtering down the results. Because the contents of the table view are bound to the event array (yay, Cocoa Bindings!), I even get sorting for free.

It will allow for searching on any of the dictionary values (Event Name, Time, or Message). Here's one filtering on 'Thumb':

Here's another, filtering on the time of day:

The underlying search machinery accepts regular expressions:

Days 3 and 4 were a little slower. There were some issues at work that were left in a slightly less than resolved state. So, I divided my time between working on work and Thumbscrew. I finished the internal Thumbnailer module, so it can act as a standalone. It will be communicating back with Thumbscrew via NSNotifications. Unlike Zope 2 or Zope 3 Events, NSNotifications are sent to a name rather than an Interface object, so I wrote another little app, called ListenUp! which takes an Event Name and listens for it, spitting out the contents of the NSNotification's object payload. Here's a screenshot, with Thumbnailer running in the background: