Re: Calling an application
Re: Calling an application
- Subject: Re: Calling an application
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:05:18 -0800
On 2/11/01 2:35 PM, "Andrew Wylie" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On 11 Feb 2001 12:13:44 -0800, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
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> I'll see if I can dig the URLs out from somewhere. Or maybe someone else can
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> beat me to it.
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thanks Paul, I've since read Bill's informative Sourcebook piece on the
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subject and summise the only good reason to use double (or triple) tell with
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AS 1.3+ is if you want to avoid some undesirable launch behavior in the
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target app.
Well, in any case you should read the best exposition of the rationale for
the raw code method:
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http://www.eremita.demon.co.uk/scripting/applescript/>
Go to Double Tell link (it's actually anti-Double Tell).
But the easiest way to do it (and it IS easy) is actually Emmanuel Levy's
method outlined in the Smile Help. (Enter 'portable' in the Search window,
click link to "Linking windows to apps"). Since Smile also gives you a dead
easy way to get raw code (same page in the Help, but use a script window,
NOT a Text window as the Help says), this is the way to go.
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Paul Berkowitz