Re: [Smartfrog-users] displaying alert messages when deployment has finished

[Steve L. <ste...@hp...>]

On 20/01/11 13:59, Frank Wilson wrote:
> I am trying to display a message after smartfrog has deployed an
> installation
> routine on a couple of machines. I tried using the display component
> like so:
>
> #include "/org/smartfrog/services/display/components.sf"
>
> sfConfig extends Sequence {
>       installPair extends Parallel {
>
>           installTestHostA extends MyProductInstall {
>               ...
>           }
>
>           installTestHostB extends MyProductInstall {
>               ...
>           }
>
>       }
>
>       confirmInstall extends Display {
>           textDisplay "Install Complete";
>           //terminateSFProcessOnExit true;
>           positionDisplay "SE";
>           fontSize 50;
>       }
>
> }
>
> Unfortunately the display process seems to continue indefinitely even
> once the
> window is closed. The task cannot be redeployed unless it is undeployed or
> has the "replace" setting set.  I've played with the
> terminateSFProcessOnExit setting
> but this doesn't seem to have any effect on what I am doing.
>

the display stuff is really for bringing up some management consoles, 
it's not been done for end user notification. In particular, when you 
start running SmartFrog headless -like on a Unix system without X, or 
even Windows without any logged on user, it really doesn't work.

I don't think we have anything right now that does what you want, which 
is really some little pop-up window that terminates its hosting 
component when a user hits OK.

I don't think it would be that hard; testing is trickier, but the base 
code is part of the java swing API.

-Steve