Try, try again

2003-06-15 Thread Richard MacLemale
List, About every 6 months or so, I pose this question in hopes that someone has run across and solved this problem. The previous times I've asked it, no one has responded. I remain ever hopeful... Situation: You want to make a cool GUI for some UNIX commands using MetaCard for OS X. It's easy u

Re: Try, try again

2003-06-15 Thread Yennie
If you don't mind the password being briefly sent in the clear (as part of the name of the process), you can use this: get shell("echo '"&pwd&"' | sudo"&&cmd) Which comes out to something that looks like: echo 'MyPassword' | sudo MyCommand Unfortunately, open process appears to be still broken o

Fwd: altBrowser Question and MAC version of altBrowser...

2003-06-15 Thread Rodney Tamblyn
Forwarded posting Chipp Walters, to use-revolution. If members of this list are seriously interested in seeing a Mac external to display web content within a MC window, read on... R. Begin forwarded message: From: "Chipp Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun Jun 15, 2003 10:23:19 AM Pacific

Re: Fwd: altBrowser Question and MAC version of altBrowser...

2003-06-15 Thread andu
--On Monday, June 16, 2003 12:11:18 +1200 Rodney Tamblyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Forwarded posting Chipp Walters, to use-revolution. If members of this list are seriously interested in seeing a Mac external to display web content within a MC window, read on... Something like this would make

Re: Fwd: altBrowser Question and MAC version of altBrowser...

2003-06-15 Thread Dan Shafer
I would absolutely be willing to pay for a multi-platform browser tool like this one accessible from RR/MC. The "free" access to a browser in MC isn't what I need; launching the user's browser rather than keeping the user in the context of my application isn't acceptable for much of my Web-cent

Re: Fwd: altBrowser Question and MAC version of altBrowser...

2003-06-15 Thread andu
--On Sunday, June 15, 2003 19:06:46 -0700 Dan Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And I would prefer a product I pay for and which is therefore supported to a free, Open Source solution for which I'd be on my own for support. This is a little off subject but you don't seem to have it very clear a