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: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:06:36 -0400
Heh, when you said "talk to me", I was thinking that you actually wanted the contents of a dialog to be spoken to you. Got you an answer by misunderstanding what you asked.
Really though, this is what Late Night Software's Script Debugger is made for.
Pony up the cash. It's certainly worth it.
http://www.latenightsw.com/
At least download the eval copy and save yourself some time.
On Sep 30, 2015, at 4:00 PM, S. J. Cunningham wrote:
> 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
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> On Sep 30, 2015, at 3:42 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
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>> Have you ever used the say command? Like so:
>>
>> say "Export complete." using "Alex"
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>> On Sep 30, 2015, at 3:18 PM, S. J. Cunningham 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.
>>>
>>> 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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