Re: Fetch's Initial Dialogue Box
Re: Fetch's Initial Dialogue Box
- Subject: Re: Fetch's Initial Dialogue Box
- From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 18:03:15 -0500
On 2/1/01 8:13 PM, Michael Rohaly <email@hidden> wrote:
>Hello. I'm a novice to AppleScript and I need to use Fetch or something
>similar to get a file from a server, open it in Excel and mess with it.
>I've got everything I need because the chore is simple and I can record most
>of it, but I'm galled that the first thing that happens in Fetch 3.03 is
>that a dialogue box comes up and it apparently wants to be dealt with. So
>my script, rather than being one elegant and tasteful click, is two
>intolerably clumsy and annoying clicks. How can I script away this initial
>process-stopping demand?
Under the "Misc" tab of the Preferences dialog, uncheck "Show log-in
dialog at startup."
--Michelle
Alternatevely you can start your script like this
tell application "Fetch 3.0.3"
activate
set show signon dialog to false
so what you have to do
end tell
HTH
Deivy Petrescu
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