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Re: Tell Launcher to quit
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Re: Tell Launcher to quit


  • Subject: Re: Tell Launcher to quit
  • From: Dale Gillard <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 13:26:51 +1100

What's scary is that if I run the following script:

--tell application "Finder"
-- tell process "Launcher" to quit
--end tell

then the Finder closes!!!

Dale

> From: email@hidden
> Reply-To: email@hidden
> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 10:52:37 -0800 (PST)
> To: email@hidden
> Subject: applescript-users digest, Vol 2 #159 - 18 msgs
>
> From: email@hidden
> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 01:01:13 EST
> Subject: Re: Tell Launcher to quit
> To: email@hidden, email@hidden
>
> <<In a message dated 12/22/00 6:38:01 PM, email@hidden wrote
>
> <<well, it is a control panel (cdev), and i dont think control panels can
> quit.
> try 'close'. >>
>
> It won't quit or close. It won't go to the background and it won't become
> invisible. There's just a whole bunch of things that don't work:
>
> close process "Launcher" --"Can't get process \"Launcher\". Access not
> allowed."
> tell application "Launcher" to quit -- "Launcher can't be launched because it
> is not an application."
> tell application "Finder" to close process "Launcher" -- nothing happens
> tell application "Finder" to close file "Mac 3011 0S9:System Folder:Control
> Panels:Launcher" -- nothing happens


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