Re: Running a Script Automatically
Re: Running a Script Automatically
- Subject: Re: Running a Script Automatically
- From: Kai Edwards <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 18:58:00 +0000
on Sat, 9 Mar 2002 00:18:22 EST, email@hidden wrote:
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> How do I have it so the Script won't appear and just
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> automatically run?
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(More detailed response than other's for a beginning user):
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From within the Scripting Editor, with the desired AppleScript as the front
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window, select Save as Run Only... from the FILE menu
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Then when the window pops up for the save dialog, select the Format menu at
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the bottom of the window and choose " Application " . This will cause two new
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check boxes to appear at the bottom of the window. Check "never show startup
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screen" and make sure Stay Open is unchecked. Giving it a different name from
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your actual script, go ahead and save it. The result isn't editable, but it
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will run automatically when launched and then quit when it finishes.
That should do the trick.
But if you still want to retain the ability to edit a working applet, select
'Save As...', rather than 'Save As Run-Only...'[1]. Then continue to follow
Marc's instructions.
To subsequently edit the applet, simply drag it (in the Finder) to the
Script Editor's icon - or open it with the 'Open Script...' command in
Script Editor's File menu.
HTH
Kai
[1] It's my impression that 'Save As Run-Only...' is more appropriate if you
don't want your script to be accessed (usually by someone else). If the
script's for your own use, or security is not an issue, then the run-only
option might be considered overkill. (And if you do choose to save as
run-only, then it's a good idea to duplicate the original compiled script
first - so that you still have an editable copy in your possession.)
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