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Re: How to talk to apps invisibly?
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Re: How to talk to apps invisibly?


  • Subject: Re: How to talk to apps invisibly?
  • From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 13:37:18 -0500
  • Organization: [very little]

> From: email@hidden
> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 21:28:25 EST
> Subject: How to talk to apps invisibly?
> To: email@hidden
>
> I've got an AppleScript that looks like this:
>
> tell application "Internet Connect"
> disconnect
> end tell
>
> It works, but it has this unfortunate side-effect of displaying the Internet
> Connect pane to the user as my script is running. Is there a way to suppress
> the display of an application that I'm controlling via AppleScript?

Give this a try:

tell application "Internet Connect"
launch
disconnect
end tell

If you don't use "launch" the app gets an invisible "run" command and it
does its initialization routines.

Marc K. Myers <email@hidden>
http://AppleScriptsToGo.com
4020 W.220th St.
Fairview Park, OH 44126
(440) 331-1074

[12/3/01 1:35:33 PM]


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