Any api equivalent to mac growl api but on windows?

http://growl.info/documentation/developer/introduction.php: Growl is a system for开发者_JAVA技巧 posting notifications to users.

Growl, but for Windows: http://www.growlforwindows.com

libraries for several programming language and the documentation for the protocol it uses can be found here: http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/developers.aspx

Nothing as popular as Grown on mac but the standard Win32 API to do notifications is Shell_NotifyIcon. You can see a sample project here on codeproject: Adding Icons to the System Tray.