Re: [MacPerl] Unix daemons in Perl on MacOS?

[Enrique Terrazas <terrazas@pangloss.ucsf.EDU>]

on 1/25/00 8:37 PM, Ken Williams at ken@forum.swarthmore.edu wrote:

>> Hmm.  Some good ideas, but I'm not to keen on the applescript angle.  I
>> hadn't considered the lack of a timeout for the dialog, although one
>> might be able to use Mac::Dialogs to create a dialog that times out on
>> its own...
> 
> But that's not necessarily part of the requirement, is it?  Couldn't you just
> flash the menubar or something, i.e. something that's relatively common on the
> Mac?

good point - how about having the mac *speak* the message?  this is
something that would work with standard os software, and would be difficult
to duplicate on unix/linux with standard software.

-- 
Enrique Terrazas, MD
<mailto:terrazas@labmed.ucsf.edu>
<http://pangloss.ucsf.edu/~terrazas/>


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