I want to create a splash screen/ active dialog box while my script is running in the background to inform the user what is happening. My script file starts up different components of a local application and has a bunch of words & stuff that the user doesn't need to see/won't understand. I know how to make the script run in the background but I would like to know how I can possibly bring up a dialog box, new terminal window, notification, or similar to let the user know once each component has started.
For instance I have 4 components so the box would come up and say:
Component 1 of 4 successfully started..
Component 2 of 4 successfully started..
and so on...
Any help appreciated as I have searched for a while with no luck. One thing to add is that I was able to bring up a new terminal window with the following code: /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal &
Which would be fine, however when I echo it still goes to the first one.
You may also notify the user with launching notification messages:
osascript -e 'display notification "hello"'
Or even a dialog box, but this will wait for the user to click the "OK" button:
osascript -e 'display alert "Hello"'
Example:
#!/bin/bash
osascript -e 'display notification "Component 1 of 4 successfully started.." with title "in progress"'
sleep 2
osascript -e 'display notification "Component 2 of 4 successfully started.." with title "in progress"'
sleep 2
osascript -e 'display alert "Processing done."'