cocoaDialog fix for 10.9, 10.10
22/05/15 10:27
This has been a problem for a looooong time. As of 10.9, Apple made changes to how applications are allowed to present UI outside of a logged in session.
Due to this change a stalwart of the MacAdmin tool belt, cocoaDialog (which has be unfortunately stagnant for some time), found itself unable to display a dialog during a logout. This affected a fair few people, myself included.
Today I have some good news. I somehow have managed via excessive Googling, kludging and fumbling my way around a bunch of obj-C I really didn't understand, seem to have managed to chop in some changes that allows it to work on the logout hook.
There is a discussion on jamfnation.
And my fork is here with a binary you can download. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK and feel free to fix whatever mistakes I've made.
I am not going to actively undo some of the ridiculous workarounds in Patchoo as I have some pretty massive code and workflow changes slated for Patchoo2.
cocoaDialog_3.0.999.zip
For the unbelievererers here's proof on a 10.10.3 client
Nothing up my sleeve
Due to this change a stalwart of the MacAdmin tool belt, cocoaDialog (which has be unfortunately stagnant for some time), found itself unable to display a dialog during a logout. This affected a fair few people, myself included.
Today I have some good news. I somehow have managed via excessive Googling, kludging and fumbling my way around a bunch of obj-C I really didn't understand, seem to have managed to chop in some changes that allows it to work on the logout hook.
There is a discussion on jamfnation.
And my fork is here with a binary you can download. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK and feel free to fix whatever mistakes I've made.
I am not going to actively undo some of the ridiculous workarounds in Patchoo as I have some pretty massive code and workflow changes slated for Patchoo2.
Download
cocoaDialog_3.0.999.zip
For the unbelievererers here's proof on a 10.10.3 client
#!/bin/bash
/Applications/cocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS/cocoaDialog msgbox \
--text "I am displaying on a logout hook on $(sw_vers | grep ProductVersion | awk '{ print $2 }')" \
--button1 "Alright, alright, all right..."
exit
Nothing up my sleeve
sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook
{
LogoutHook = "/Library/Scripts/logouthook.sh";
}
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Where have I been?
22/05/15 09:01
It's been a long time between posts. I've changed jobs and have been swamped trying to bring singlehandedly some order a completely unmanaged OSX and iOS fleet into order across 18 sites and entire country. It's also a complete change as I am now in edu. Apologies for lack of work on Patchoo!, but I hope to have some more time to work on v2 soon!
I am planning on writing up my battles with VPP / DEP / GroundControl / Casper and iOS shared carts soon as most information out there is not current, and I've built a pretty good workflow within the constraints of the MDM frameworks.
More to follow!
I am planning on writing up my battles with VPP / DEP / GroundControl / Casper and iOS shared carts soon as most information out there is not current, and I've built a pretty good workflow within the constraints of the MDM frameworks.
More to follow!