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CocoaDialog
How many times has thing happened to you? You've just put the finishing touches on a sweet shell script that you want to roll out to your entire enterprise, but you know that most of y our users aren't going to want to launch Terminal to input the answers that your script requires. If only there was some way of accessing commonly used OS X GUI elements with your shell script without having to use Applescript.Enter CocoaDialog, which let's you do exactly that. This opensource project looks like it has been languishing a bit, but hopefully development will pick up soon.
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brian said 10:33AM on 11-18-2005
You can name any shell script with a '.command' suffix and it will run when double-clicked.
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cpryce said 11:57AM on 11-18-2005
Pashua looks similar, though I haven't used either one to compare:
http://www.bluem.net/downloads/pashua_en/
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spiralscratch said 3:31PM on 11-18-2005
Or, make a simple little app using AppleScript Studio in xCode (or whatever the whole setup may be called now). Just use basic "do shell script" calls to the script contained within the .app.
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