Re: Is there a way to keep a floating window open?
Re: Is there a way to keep a floating window open?
- Subject: Re: Is there a way to keep a floating window open?
- From: Adam Bell <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 16:59:39 -0400
There are a number of notifiers that work well and do this: LanOSD,
Growl, and FastScripts come to mind.
On 1/2/06, David B. Gustavson <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I'd like to display some text that is updated occasionally by an
> AppleScript, in a floating window that hangs around until I close it. My
> present workaround is to use
> display dialog "Mail last fetched at: " & return & lasttime giving up after
> 4
> to display the info briefly, but that's not really satisfactory.
> I'm running the script in Eudora, and Eudora waits for the script to exit
> before it continues checking the mail. If I could make it run in a separate
> thread I could let it display longer without holding up progress, but I
> don't know if it's possible to make that happen.
> Running the script in a script editor environment acts more the way I'd
> like, i.e. separate thread/task, but is awkward in other ways.
> There used to be an OSAX or something that would maintain a floating window,
> but I haven't found one that works in OS X.
> Any suggestions?
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