fishfry <BLOCKSPAMfishfry@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I'm an experienced Unix, C and Perl developer. I'd like to be able to
> set a reminder for a certain date and time that causes a window to pop
> up at that time, regardless of what else I'm doing.
>
> So far all I can think of is finding some reminder or calendar program
> that accepts AppleScript; then using Perl and the Mac::AppleScript
> module to control it.
>
> Any other suggestions? Are there any calendar or reminder utilities that
> have a Perl or C API? Or if I go the AppleScript route, what calender or
> reminder utilities would be suitable?
It isn't quite clear what you want.
If you just want a reminder to appear regardless of what else you're
doing, you don't need to be *any* kind of developer; iCal is on your
computer and will do this for you. And there are many other reminder
programs.
If you want to reinvent that wheel and *write* something that performs
this function, then, yes, clearly you need to supply some interface. One
simple built-in way would be to call AppleScript, which can put up a
dialog; on how to call AppleScript from Perl, man osascript (or see my
book, which has some examples).
m.
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