Mac OS X & AppleScript
Mac OS X & AppleScript
- Subject: Mac OS X & AppleScript
- From: Frank Flynn <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:59:34 -0700
- Organization: Poet, Artist & Mystic
Hi all,
I have an AppleScript which runs great in OS 9, it: is open all the time
and it has a idle handler which makes it do the work once a day. The
work is:
- Open a Filemaker DB and run a script which dumps seval files then
quit
- Open Fetch and ftp these tfiles to a Unix machine
Everything is fine so far.
Under OS X it works the same but I wated to be able to logout and have
cron schedule the script. Has anyone had experiances (good or bad) with
this?
My particular questions are (and I will try it just to see):
-I can run (open) a script from the command liine but can cron do this
while no one is logged in? (there is no destop).
- I had one HECK of a time trying to make the script run with FileMaker
not being the frontmost application (it would not open the DB - I got a
"user interaction not allowed" error). Putting activate in the tell
application filemaker block fixed the error but I'm not sure what was
going on.
Any advice apreciated...
Frank email@hidden