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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: bmarkus on August 06, 2009, 05:48:14 PM

Title: Howto display popup message?
Post by: bmarkus on August 06, 2009, 05:48:14 PM

What is the easiest way to display a popup message from command line in TC 2.x?

Title: Re: Howto display popup message?
Post by: robc on August 06, 2009, 05:50:16 PM

couldn't you use `popup Hello World`?

Title: Re: Howto display popup message?
Post by: bmarkus on August 06, 2009, 06:08:06 PM

Message is displayed by a program, sent to STDOUT Piping doesn't work with popup. Assigning output to a variable then using it as an argument with popup is a bit better, but window is full width and lines are not formatted as in the original text.

Title: Re: Howto display popup message?
Post by: florian on August 06, 2009, 06:27:22 PM

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Message is displayed by a program, sent to STDOUT Piping doesn't work with popup.

my_program | xargs popup

Title: Re: Howto display popup message?
Post by: ^thehatsrule^ on August 07, 2009, 12:12:37 AM

Most likely popup ignores it

Possible way: invoke aterm with something

Title: Re: Howto display popup message?
Post by: curaga on August 07, 2009, 02:38:57 PM

Xdialog is available as an extension, it is pretty advanced in possible handling. Or in the base, dialog+aterm should work.

Title: Re: Howto display popup message?
Post by: bmarkus on August 07, 2009, 03:16:34 PM

Quote from: curaga on August 07, 2009, 02:38:57 PM

Xdialog is available as an extension, it is pretty advanced in possible handling. Or in the base, dialog+aterm should work.

Thanks, dialog seems to be appropriate at the moment as it is part of the system.