Re: Sending a message via Program Linking
Re: Sending a message via Program Linking
- Subject: Re: Sending a message via Program Linking
- From: Simon Topliss <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 09:13:33 +0000
Does any one have any info on an application called "Acme Message Window". I
think that's what Geoff is referring to. Their web site www.acmetech.com
isn't responding. If it's shareware can some kind sole send my it privately
(if that's legal?).
Simon
On 4/12/00 11:26 pm, "Geoff Graham" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At 1:23 PM -0800 12/4/00, email@hidden wrote:
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> No, you can't tell the Finder of the remote mac to display dialog because
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> display dialog is part of the standard additions osax and you can't tell
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> something that's not running to do anything.
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The standard additions are available to the remote Finder. They all work
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except for Display dialog, I'm guessing because they assume no one is there to
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dismiss a modal dialog. But you can do these things over AppleTalk:
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tell application "Finder" of machine "kakapo"
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activate
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say "Important message waiting"
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name of startup disk
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set atemp to the result
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set mylaunch to (atemp & ":" & "messagetemp.txt") as string
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set x to open for access file mylaunch with write permission
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set eof of x to 0
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write "This is an Important mesage..." to x
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close access x
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open file mylaunch
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end tell
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there is also an app called "Message Window", that is made for your purpose,
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but you would have to plant it on the target machine. As to weather you could
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plant it via remote script, I haven't tried. As far as something needing to be
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open first, in the above example i create a file, but you could target an
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existing app (but not write over it ;-) and open it instead, and then send
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commands to it.
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geoff
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