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Old 04-19-2007, 02:48 AM   #7
smoogle
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Originally Posted by narve
Sorry for being off-topic, but could a developer make an extremely simple app that displays a message box? Syntax "showdialog "my message here"? Then the scripts could use error codes to show an error dialog whenever an application fails to launch or something like that. Today, if a community application fails we have to launch it via terminal windows to see what the error is, which I guess excludes many users from giving proper error reports...
Done, but not compiled, takes a single commandline parameter and pops up a centered message box. Should work... It's just a simple GTK application. I'll test it later;

compile using something like the following:
gcc -o mbox mbox.c `pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --cflags --libs`
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