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I had the opportunity to hack a bit on RubyOSA recently, and I could introduce some good things in the SVN repository.

The most important changes are writable properties and i386 support. Other than that, several small bugfixes/improvements (better type conversion, better support of broken dictionaries, etc…).

Oh, and we have a new geeky sample that periodically sets the iChat status to the uptime(1) command output:

require 'rbosa'
app = OSA.app_with_name('iChat')
previous_status_message = app.status_message
trap('INT') { app.status_message = previous_status_message; exit 0 }
while true
    app.status_message = `uptime`.strip
    sleep 5
end

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