Re: Executing AScripts automatically?
Re: Executing AScripts automatically?
- Subject: Re: Executing AScripts automatically?
- From: "Donald S. Hall" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:35:47 -0700
Nick,
I have just released a shareware program called "Script Timer" that allows
you to automatically run Applescript scripts. They don't need to be saved as
applications. You can choose either set times or time intervals between
runs. Here's my blurb:
Script Timer is an easy to use background application that lets you schedule
the execution of Open Scripting Architecture (OSA) based scripts, such as
those created using AppleScript. It allows you to run your scripts at any
time on a daily, weekly, weekdays only, monthly, or one time basis as well
as at regular intervals ranging from minutes to weeks. Because Script Timer
handles all of the scheduling details, you can write short, easy to follow
task oriented scripts to perform such diverse tasks as regularly checking
your e-mail, reminding you of an upcoming appointment, or downloading one or
more large files from the Internet overnight. Unlike with some other
scheduling software, installation of Script Timer has no impact on your
System Folder, and it has an extremely small memory footprint.
Script Timer is a shareware product. If you find it useful, please consider
paying the shareware registration fee. The fee is US$10 for a single user,
US$300 for a site license (equal to 30 users), or US$600 for a world-wide
license for your organization. Complete registration instructions are given
in Section 3 of the User Manual.
Unregistered copies of the program are restricted to day-of-the-week or
hourly scheduling and a maximum of three scheduled run times being active at
any one time.
There is one caveat. I have discovered that running Internet Explorer 5.0 at
the same time on OS 9.0.4 causes it (Script Timer) to crash. I am looking
into this right now - it seems to be something to do with getting the system
time. (I've had it running for several weeks on an OS 8.1 machine with no
problems.)
You can get it at
http://www.theboss.net/appsmore if you'd like to have a
look at it.
Don Hall
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