Modal popup from command line tool or daemon?

Hi I'm new to Cocoa and I'm trying to figure out how to create a simple popup which can be displayed from a command line tool or a background process. Ideally it would be something like NSAlert plus a text input field. I've been reading Apple's docs on windows, documents and the various

Re: Modal popup from command line tool or daemon?

I think the CFUserNotification API is exactly what I'm looking for, although I'm not pleased with daemons requiring user interaction in the first place. An earlier reply suggested Growl which I'm thinking is better suited for what I'm doing. Combined with a simple preference pane for