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: "S. J. Cunningham" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:00:00 -0400
LOL! I had't thought of that. And I just tried it, so it does wotk. Beep works too. Neither is interactive but it gave me some idea for my alarms.
Thanks.
Steve
On Sep 30, 2015, at 3:42 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
> Have you ever used the say command? Like so:
>
> say "Export complete." using "Alex"
>
>
> On Sep 30, 2015, at 3:18 PM, S. J. Cunningham wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Steve
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