Re: Modal popup from command line tool or daemon?

FROM : Daniel Staal
DATE : Fri Apr 18 22:31:19 2008

--As of April 18, 2008 4:21:39 PM -0400, David Wilson is alleged to have
said:

> A command line tool or a true background daemon can't really pull it
> off- the process wouldn't have a connection to the window server to
> actually do any of that. The best bet, I think, would be to have a
> small helper application that could be launched to display the
> appropriate alert; the helper application could be a very simple cocoa
> app.


--As for the rest, it is mine.

Instead of bundling (and writing) your own helper app, it might be worth
while to think about calling Growl:
<http://growl.info/>

Daniel T. Staal

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