Re: Avoid application launch

On Feb 23, 2010, at 11:31, email@hidden wrote:

> Actually my app is using apple script for fetching some mail details from entourage. This script will execute from my app when performing some task. some back ground process using this apple script for fetching details. when performing this back ground process we may quit Entourage in between scripting action. In this situation Entourage will launch suddenly.
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> Thanks & Regards,
> Joby Abraham.
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So? Either make sure your app doesn't quit while it's busy in the background, if that's what you want, or make sure that the applescript doesn't call back when the app has been quit during the background process, if that's what you want. I don't see your problem.

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> > Yes, that script works exactly as I would expect it to work.
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> > If you want to quit the app, you shouldn't ask it something.
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> > If you want to ask the app something, you shouldn't quit it.
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> > If you want to call a particular scripting action only when the app is running, then you enclose /that event/ in an if statement checking whether the app is running.
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> > > Can you please try the following apple script
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> > > "if application "Microsoft Entourage" is running then
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> > > Step 1: launch Microsoft Entourage
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> > > Step 2: execute the above applescript
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> > > Step 3: execution will wait for 10 secs to continue from line "delay 10".
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> > > Step 4: Quit Microsoft Entourage completing execution of line "delay 10".
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> > > Step 5: wait for completing execution of line "delay 10"
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> > > Thanks and Regards,
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> > > Joby Abraham.
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> > > > On Feb 22, 2010, at 9:49, email@hidden wrote:
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> > > > > I am using the following apple script for getting current selection.
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> > > > > "if application "Microsoft Entourage" is running then
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> > > > > end if"
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> > > > > when running this applescript I quit "Microsoft Entourage". Suddenly "Microsoft Entourage" got relaunch. I need to avoid this. Any body knows the solution for avoiding this "Microsoft Entourage" launching?
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> > > > > Thank You,
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> > > > I am not sure what you are saying, as your sentences make no sense to me. How can you quit an app while running an applescript that takes virtually no time to execute? And WHEN does the app gets relaunched?
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> > > > When I run this AppleScript while Entourage is not running, nothing happens, which is exactly what is expected, so I see no problem. And when Entourage is running, it just gives the selection, so also no problem.
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