I stumbled onto the solution a couple of hours ago, and posted an
answer to my own question, but now I see I replied to myself, not to
the list!
In any event, the subtleties of the parsing may explain why "/usr/bin/
osascript -e 'tell application \"TextEdit\" activate end tell'" will
execute properly (without newlines) but (substituting Mail for
TextEdit) "/usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application \"Mail\" activate
end tell'" won't.
I'm happy that I have a solution though, so I'm willing to live with
the mystery.
Thanks again,
John
On May 19, 2005, at 3:12 PM, John Louch wrote:
AppleScript wants newlines. If you were able to get error
reporting, you'd
find that it was complaining like this:
25:26: syntax error: Expected end of line but found unknown token.
(-2741)
The system call just hands whatever your command is over to /bin/
sh for
interpretation, though by that time your Javascript will have
already done
some: \" to " and \n to a real newline and so forth. So you can
always test
on the command line. Also, system will for a process for every
call, so I'd
generally prefer to do this in objC anyway:
This is not exactly correct. The system call will try to exec the
command
directly unless the command has metacharacters in it. If it has
metacharacters it will then use /bin/sh.
Thanks,
jl
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