🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <Btywsz.953@suite.com> Mark-Tarbell@suite.com writes:
> In article <BtxEHp.JIA@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David  
> Lemson) writes:
> > eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
> > 
> > >You know the "Printing" panel that pops up when your NeXT Laser
> > >Printer runs out of paper?  That's done by a handy little program
> > >called /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Inform.  It turns out that Inform can
> > >display any message of your choosing:
> > 
> > >a general-purpose notification service.  (Hmm... you can probably
> > >replace the "PrinterAlert" nib section with whatever you want.)
> > 
> > You sure can, I just did it in about 25 seconds... makes a great app
> > to pop up on all the machines in the lab when there is going to be a
> > system shutdown!
> 
> Note that you can't do this under 3.0. Enjoy it while you can.

But you could hack your own. After all this "seems" to be a fairly
easy thing to do, 10 sec. code:

/*
 *     Generated by the NeXT Interface Builder. Rename the binary with the 
 *     .daemon extension (to avoid a miniwindow from being created).
 */

#import <stdlib.h>
#import <appkit/Application.h>

void main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

	// Do a run through the argument vector and switch it
	// (the most time cosuming thing in this program.
	// Don't forget to exit if argc == 0.
	
    NXApp = [Application new];
	
	// Substitute the above messages by the strings gotten from the
	// Argument vector.

	NXRunAlertPanel(NULL, "A Panic has just occured!","Power Off",  
"Halt","Reboot");
    [NXApp free];
    exit(0);
}
-- 
Manuel Alberto Ricart
alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome>