Category: Openmoko

Display simple messages on the screen

This is a bit like xmessage. You can pipe in a message to display. There is an option to display a Yes and No button and return an appropriate status value.

2010-03-04: First public release, version 1.0

Package: elmessage_1.0_arm.ipk

Source: elmessage

Screen Shot: Screenshot-elmessage.png

The idea is you can write a script to grab some information and display it on the screen in a simple windows with an OK button by piping the text into elmessage. It comes with help information built in. This is used by the system_status tool.

smithm@michael:~/src/elmessage$ ./elmessage -h
elmessage

Copyright (C) 2009 Michael Smith

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version. See COPYRIGHT for details.

elmessage is intened to be used to display simple messages

OPTIONS

-t	Specify title of window
-m	Specify message to display (if not specified, read from stdin)
-y	Display No and Yes buttons. Return status 0 for Yes, 1 for No
-h	Display this help message
            

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