After reading this: "Extending Ant to support interactive builds" http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-antbuild/
I wrote a little task that does the same thing (prompt the user for input and put it in a property), but pops up a Swing-based dialog box instead of a text prompt. Not as robust as the original task (no timeout), but prettier. http://www.joecheng.com/code/promptdialogtask.jar (source included) screenshot: http://www.joecheng.com/code/promptdialogtask.gif syntax: <taskdef name="promptdialog" classname="PromptDialogTask"/> <promptdialog property="property_name" <= required prompt="FTP server hostname?" <= required windowtitle="Build Prompt" defaultvalue="ftp.netscape.com" useexisting="false" required="true"/> _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
