can panther do something like this?

cfleck

cfleck

tired
i was reading a review on kde here...
http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5670&page=4

and i was thinking how usefull that kdialog stuff could be. in particular...

...instead of a simple "make", I issue
$ alias kmsg='kdialog --msgbox'
$ make && kmsg "Compilation Successful!" || kmsg "Error during Compilation"

Then I minimise this terminal window and go off to do something more productive. When make exits, either of the two messages are displayed depending on the success/failure of the operation. No more periodic checking to see if make is done yet!

Another useful application of kdialog could be to generate a dialog box with a list of tasks and execute a command when an option is clicked. This could be bundled up into a tiny shell script and be easily executed by creating an icon on the desktop.
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is it possible to do something like this from the terminal? don't get me wrong. i dont want to install kde and do this through x11. i'm wondering if osx has a feature like this.
 
So basically you want to know if there's a command line tool that pops up a dialog box displaying a message that was passed to it as a parameter?

I don't know of one, but I think it would take about 10 minutes to write yourself one if it didn't exists (I'd also suspect that something may well exist in the OS already).
 
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