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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: a message box for the finder?
Message-ID: <6195@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 8 Jan 89 09:04:11 GMT
References: <730078@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <730078@hpcilzb.HP.COM> tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:
>Do the Macintosh gurus out there think it would be possible to write a VBL
>task that would monitor a command-line window and carry out finder-like
>commands?  What I have in mind is something like HyperCard's message box.
>You would be able to launch applications, delete files, etc. all without
>moving the mouse.  (Use pretzel-m to bring up the "message box", or just
>use "blind typing").
>
>Before I start coding such a thing, I'd like to know if anyone sees any
>fundamental flaws with it.

The basic concept is sound, but what's this about a VBL task?  The obvious
(and easiest) way to do such a thing is as a desk accessory.

Also note that unless it's scriptable and extensible, there's not much point.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"The Diabolonian position is new to the London playgoer of today, but not to
 lovers of serious literature.  From Prometheus to the Wagnerian Siegfried,
 some enemy of the gods, unterrified champion of those oppressed by them, has
 always towered among the heroes of the loftiest poetry."
    - Shaw, "On Diabolonian Ethics"