Le 18 mars 09 à 05:45, Jerry Krinock a écrit :


On 2009 Mar 15, at 09:03, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote (in thread "GUI Calls in Tool Executable..."):

Just to complete the answer, the correct way to display alert from a background process is to use the CFUserNotification API.

Thanks, I wasn't even aware of that. I was thinking of using Growl if my agent ever needed to speak with the user. After a few minutes of reading, it appears that ...

Advantages of Growl:
  Probably looks nicer
  Configurable by user
  Objective-C -- API looks easier to use

Advantages of CFUserNotification
  No extra framework to package
  Not configurable by user (Good if you don't want this)
  No AppKit -- safe for use in daemons

Any other Growl vs. CFUserNotification considerations that one should be aware of?

CFUserNotification is interactive. It returns user choices: which button was pressed, if an eventual check box was checked, and it can also contains a text field.

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