Print command in IDE Communicator

General
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In a build script for the IDE communicator I build 3 apps. At the end of each there is a notification that one app is finished. Since the building can take a couple of minutes I’ve sometimes missed the end of building. Therefore I thought I’d simply add a

print("Finished with building!")
to the end of the build script. This, however, only gives a result back and doesn’t show any messagebox:

{ "tag":"build", "response":"Finished with building!" }

I could write myself a simple AppleScript to execute with osascript in the shell. But this tends to be complicated because of the quoting.

Is there an easier way?

2

That’s true. It was necessary to have all command responses be sent back to the communicator for truly unattended operation. There is however a command specifically for showing dialogs now (actually since 2012r2):

ShowDialog(Message as String, Explanation as String, DefaultButtonCaption as String, CancelButtonCaption as String = "", AltButtonCaption as String = "", Icon as Integer = 0) as String

The Icon parameter uses the same values as the MessageDialog.Icon property. The returned String is the caption of the button that was pressed.

3

Thanks!