Re: How Can I Get a Launch Agent which is a Script to Talk to Me?
Re: How Can I Get a Launch Agent which is a Script to Talk to Me?
- Subject: Re: How Can I Get a Launch Agent which is a Script to Talk to Me?
- From: Paul Fidler <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 20:48:12 +0100
I think it was around 10.9 when AppleScript runner disappeared, removing the ability to do Display Dialogs without an app.
Daemons have no user context, so that limits you to launch agents....
You may have to write a windowless app that takes arguments to do display dialogs. Add in LSUIELement (iirc) and you'll get your display dialogs back.
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> On 30 Sep 2015, at 20:18, S. J. Cunningham <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I am writing an AppleScript to be launched periodically by launchd (yes, I'm back to working on my Dead Man Project for those of you who remember) and I find that "display dialog" messages disappear into the ether. I read somewhere that Daemons aren't supposed to communicate with losers, er, users so I assume the same applies to Launch Agents.
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> I am getting around it now by writing to a file. I don't really see a need for the final product to communicate but I make extensive use of "display dialog" for debugging, tracing, etc. Any ideas how I can accomplish this with a Launch Agent script?
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> Steve
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