Re: Newbie question - creating non-blocking alerts
Re: Newbie question - creating non-blocking alerts
- Subject: Re: Newbie question - creating non-blocking alerts
- From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 01:13:03 +1200
on Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 07:43:03 +0100 David Shorter wrote
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I've created a script which launches at atart-up (along with other things) and
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needs to flash up a non-blocking alert (in front of other eopn windows) if the
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user should know about something - like Eudora's "You have new mail message".
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Is there any way of doing this in Applescript? Have looked in the ScriptEditor
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and Finder directories, also the ref manual, but can't see anything. Could use
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a "Say" command of course but the user might not have audio turned on...
if your script is an applet you can tell it to activate and display the
dialog or telling the frontmost app to display it should work...
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tell application name of (info for (path to frontmost application)) to ,
display dialog "don't be stupid"
______________ Andy