Hi, Ok, so either appleScript or bash will suffice here. Here is my scenario: I have a textfile with a number of quotes in it. I want one of these quotes to be spoken and also to be shown on screen when mac OS is started, and I want this to happen independent of VoiceOver for it will not be running on the mac this is being made for. Now, after some digging I found out the easiest way to do this is by a nifty little terminal program called Fortune. This program allows quotes to be sent to the terminal from a specified file. I made the necessary files and I can send them to the Say command with a shell script. The info can therefore be spoken. But now I get stuck. I also want the same quote to be visible on screen, most preferably by means of a messageBox. My first idea was to use osascript -e display dialog. But this didn't work. Also thought of somehow sharing the info sent to Say by sending it to a variable and then sending that variable to Say. This works, but I don't know how to tell appleScript about this variable. Does anyone have an idea to get me out of this? I am running out of ideas pretty fast.
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