Re: Can a script create an applet?
Re: Can a script create an applet?
- Subject: Re: Can a script create an applet?
- From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 01:12:17 -0500
- Organization: [very little]
Arthur J Knapp wrote:
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Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 14:20:11 -0500
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Subject: Re: Can a script create an applet?
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From: "Arthur J Knapp" <email@hidden>
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To: email@hidden
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> From: email@hidden
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> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 19:23:30 EST
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> Subject: Re: Can a script create an applet?
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> If this can be done vanilla it could be very useful...eg self conatined
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> installers for pro script-based apps. Ive fooled around with it a bit, but so
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> far nothing.
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!!! Not Extensively Tested !!!
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-- Your "installer" script, saved as an applet:
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--
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script HelloWorld
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on run
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display dialog "Hello World"
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end run
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end script
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on run
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set ThisScript to path to me
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tell application "Finder"
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-- Ues the installer itself as an applet-template
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--
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set TheApplet to duplicate ThisScript
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-- After setting the name of TheApplet, I could no longer
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-- access it as a Finder object, so:
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--
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set TheApplet to TheApplet as alias -- ? bug ? work-around
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-- Name the applet
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--
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set name of TheApplet to "HelloWorld"
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-- Put the script into the applet
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--
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store script HelloWorld in TheApplet replacing yes
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end tell
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beep 2
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end run
Thank you for a solution to a problem that has been annoying me since
sometime in October. You gave me one of those "Of course! Why didn't
_I_ think of that!" moments. Is there any particular reason why you
think it might be unstable or was that just something of a general
disclaimer for a concept not thoroughly tested? The modified versions
of the scripts I had been using that copied a separate template script
worked just fine, both for applets and droplets.
Marc K. Myers <email@hidden>
http://AppleScriptsToGo.com
4020 W.220th St.
Fairview Park, OH 44126
(440) 331-1074
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