At 2:05 PM +0100 2/25/13, Jan Stary wrote:
On Feb 24 20:50:52, ctrelea...@cogeco.ca wrote:
At 5:23 PM -0600 2/24/13, Jim Graham wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:03:54PM +0000, Chris Jones wrote:
> >> On 24 Feb 2013, at 10:59pm, Jim Graham <spooky1...@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
3) Deliver the messages in another manner: eg, cause them to open
in TextEdit or a browser window.
That needs the capability to "open a window".
No way.
Um, OS X includes this graphical user interface thingy. We don't
have to ignore it _all_ the time!
> I think a few lines of Applescript
would be enough to create a new window and display all the Notes
messages from an install. (We would even have the option to use rtf
or html to format the messages to improve delivery.)
No fucking way.
Interesting. Which part offends you so much: Applescript or formatting?
> The user would
essentially have an action list after the install. Drawbacks:
doesn't work for ssh-type connections to remote machines. I think
this could be very helpful
Thoughts?
How about: print all the meesages at the very end
of the whole install. That's how OpenBSD does it.
That would be an improvement as long as users aren't left hanging on
cancelled or failed installs.
Craig
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