Re: alert from a daemon?

FROM : Kyle Sluder
DATE : Mon Jan 21 16:52:03 2008

On Jan 21, 2008 12:59 AM, Adrian Ross <<email_removed>> wrote:
> Is there a way to display an alert to the currently logged-in user?
> Anyone have other solutions? I guess I could write a separate
> executable solely for this task and install it as an agent, but that
> seems a bit over the top.


It's not over the top, it is precisely what you must do.  The agent
must be installed so that it launches for every user at startup; if
you're running on Leopard only, this would mean a global login item.

You cannot rely on any non-console namespace being able to connect to
the window server.  Apple has half-removed that ability in Leopard,
and I would expect that the global bootstrap namespace will be gone by
the next big cat.

--Kyle Sluder