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Local network messaging using AppleScript
Authored by: d. on Feb 16, '05 03:30:14AM

@Beavix: I don't have a .Mac or AOL account to use with iChat, I presume you need that to activate iChat, unless somebody can telll me otherwise. That's why I wrote this script.

@Frederico: I admit that is very very annoying to be switched out of your current program jus to get a stupid message and then finding out that your clipboard is changed. An optional choice button to use the message in the clipboard also crossed my mind, but I needed this to work faster for my co-workers.

It's a bit silly how I use this script anyway. Before I send my message I warn my co-workers that a message is coming in. It's just a fast way for me to send then little bits of text which they can work with directly.

d.



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Local network messaging using AppleScript
Authored by: d. on Feb 16, '05 04:08:52AM

AAAH! Forget my last remark about iChat, I feel like a ********, for some reason I never get passed the iChat register screen. To be precisely, I never pressed 'continue'...

What the **** was I thinking? Sometimes you look for solutions everywhere, in the strangest places, just to find out that the solution was allready there, around the corner.

Shame, shame.



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Local network messaging using AppleScript
Authored by: osxpounder on Feb 16, '05 03:57:33PM

Hmm, I don't see the point of any of this effort, when your Mac comes to you with iChat. I'd be pretty angry at finding out my meticulously constructed selection just vanished from the Clipboard, too, and and I also agree that it's annoying to be "ripped out of your program" when you're busy with it. Heck, I don't even like it when other programs *I* chose to run do that to me -- I think it's very rude and disruptive of Mail, for example, to pop up on my screen while it's finishing its startup sequence and downloading my mail. I HATE that. That's what the Dock is for -- so a program can discreetly ask for attention by bouncing, rather than popping itself up between me and my work.

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