Hello Kevin, There are a couple choices here, which I think differ depending on whether your daemon will run on Darwin or Mac OS X. For Darwin, you should investigate the user notification library, Libunc (cvs path is /Libraries/Apple/UserNotification/) though I'm not really sure what options there are given that Darwin doesn't have a GUI. The darwin-userlevel list is a good place to talk about Libunc. For Mac OS X, you should take a look at CFUserNotification.h which probably does everything need, but that's better discussed on a different mailing list. Also I think everything you need is in the user level, so you probably don't need the darwin-kernel list for this one. -Kevin Van Vechten On Monday, November 19, 2001, at 02:04 AM, Kevin Bohan wrote: Hi, I am writing daemon that shuts down the system in response to an external event. The shutdown is performed by a daemon process. I don't really have a UI for this app, except for a pref pane to configure settings. I would like the user to be "notified" prior to shutdown. By notify, I mean a visual notification message/dialog pop-up, whatever. As I daemon I know I cannot directly show any UI elements. What is the preferred method of displaying a user-notification in this case. Kirby _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel