leei@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU (Lee Iverson) (06/13/91)
Now available on export.lcs.mit.edu:/notifier.tar.Z ******************************************************************************/ Notifier is just a small application which creates a popup shell which pops up and highlights it's most recent input whenever it gets anything on stdin. This would be unexciting (but possibly useful) without the addition of stderrNotifier(), a subroutine which should be called from your main(). It spawns a notifier process and then pipes stderr output from the current process to the notifier. Anything subsequently written to stderr will cause the notifier to pop up and scroll to the most recent message. The notifier keeps a scrolling list of all the input it has received and even stays around after the program has exited (only if it is already up, thus catching the bomb message if there was one). Small, simple and immensely useful (in my estimation). I'm surprised nobody thought of this before. -- Lee Iverson McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines leei@mcrcim.mcgill.edu Computer Vision and Robotics Lab McGill University, Montreal -- Lee Iverson McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines leei@mcrcim.mcgill.edu Computer Vision and Robotics Lab McGill University, Montreal