From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,2b4035d737f33f74,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-31 04:07:41 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!128.39.3.166!uninett.no!ntnu.no!randhol+abuse From: randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Need advice on Reminder program Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:07:36 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 980942856 5427 129.241.83.82 (31 Jan 2001 12:07:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:07:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4748 Date: 2001-01-31T12:07:36+00:00 List-Id: Hi I have started making a small reminder program called avtale (Norwegian for appointment) because I am tired of all the programs for Linux that suddenly stop reminding me about appointments I have. I want to make a small daemon that reads in a text file with appointments and warn me by popping up a dialog on the screen (possibly sound effect and more later, but not now I want to keep it simple and reliable). My thought is to use tasks for this. One task that pop up the dialogs, one that read the text file and one that keeps track of the time. I do not have experience with tasks so I am wondering if this is a stupid approach :-) ? Is there something I should look out for so that the daemon won't suddenly stop working. I want a really reliable program :-). Thanks in advance. PS: No, this is not homework, well I make the program at home but for my own leisure and not for any course :-) -- Preben Randhol ------------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�