Re: Apple System Profiler
Re: Apple System Profiler
- Subject: Re: Apple System Profiler
- From: David Emmons <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 23:01:54 -0500
Funny, my ASP is version 2.5 which I seem to remember getting off the
developer site a while back. I'll have to give your script a whirl to see if
it works. (iMac DV SE/400, 9.04)
-Dave
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From: Mike Tuller <email@hidden>
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 20:58:12 -0600
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To: Applescript <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Apple System Profiler
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And to add to it, the script I modified (originally created by Jonathan
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Neff) needs ASP version 2.4.5 to work which came with the new Indigo iMac,
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so you will have to have a new machine to run it. It can be easily changed
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to work on lower versions though.
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> From: Richard 23 <email@hidden>
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> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:41:23 -0800
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> To: <email@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: Apple System Profiler
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>>> From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
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>>> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 08:47:05 -0800
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>>> To: Mike Tuller <email@hidden>
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>>> Subject: Re: Apple System Profiler
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>>> Your script doesn't compile; all the "info" statements are rejected. What's
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>>> the correct syntax?
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>>>> tell application "HardDisk:Desktop Folder:Apple System Profiler"
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>>>> make new report at beginning
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>>>> repeat until gathering is false
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>>>> end repeat
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>>>> set macOSInfo to MacOS info
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>>>> set memoryInfo to memory info
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>>>> etc.
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> The success of script like my ASPquery or one like Mike Tuller's is very
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> much dependant upon the version of ASP you're running.
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> MacOS 8.6 users receive version 2.2.0
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> MacOS 9.0.x users have version 2.4.4
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> version avaiable for download 2.1.2
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> The dictionary containing the terms you can use to get information
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> from Apple System Profiler changed quite a bit between Mac OS 8.6
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> and 9.0.4. Here's a numerical breakdown of what's different
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> between the two sets of terminologies.
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> 2.2.0 2.4.4
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> Application Properties 18 101
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> Report Properties 6 89
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> My script won't be much fun without terminology available in
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> version 2.4.4. The Mac OS 8.6 version doesn't appear to provide
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> much terminology for accessing values gathered by the ASP. You'll
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> need to refer to ASPs dictionary for specifics as to which properties
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> are avaiable in your version.
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> Making matters worse, while I assumed, like SimpleText, ASP updates
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> were freely provided... guess again. A preliminary search turned up
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> ASP 2.1.2 as the version freely available.
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> Unless you have ASP 2.4.4 accessing individual properties isn't
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> very likely. I'd email Apple and ask that they make the more
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> scriptable version available to all.
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> So once again, if you have Mac OS 9, you may find my ASPquery script
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> helpful. I will put the information about differences between the
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> ASP versions on my site in the next couple of days.
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> http://homepage.mac.com/richard23/applescript01.html#ASPquery
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> R23
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