Re: undefined variable
Re: undefined variable
- Subject: Re: undefined variable
- From: Daniel McCoy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:59:49 -0400 (EDT)
thank you for you help. I am new to apple script.
i tested that code you gave me. but it still won't quit the program. maybe
i did something wrong. here is that i have.
tell application "Finder"
repeat with i from 1 to 6
if {the creator type of application process, i} is equal to
"AOp3" then
tell application "America Online" to quit
end if
end repeat
end tell
any i deas?
again. thanks for the deed back.
-Dan
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> if "app" is active then # THIS IS WHERE I GET THE ERROR#
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What this line says is if the text string "app" equals the variable active.
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Yo have not define the variable active before. You are wanting to see if the
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application is running. You need to do something like:
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> tell application "Finder"
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> repeat with i from 1 to (the number of application processes)
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> if (the creator type of application process i) is "POrg" then
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> tell application "Palm Desktop" to quit
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> end if
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> end repeat
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Someone may suggest something better but what you have to do is find the
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active process for the application from the Finder and then tell it to quit.
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I have used the creator code in my example as it gets around any renaming of
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the application file, which is possible.
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I couldn't work out what you were doing here:
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> if "app" is active then # THIS IS WHERE I GET THE ERROR#
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> tell application "Finder"
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> activate
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> end tell
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> quit application "app"
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> else
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> tell application "app"
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> activate
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> quit application "app"
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> end tell
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> end if
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If your if condition worked then when the condition was true you would make
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the Finder the front application and the quit your application. If it was
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false you would make your application the front application and then quit
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it. You don't need to make anything the front application, especially not to
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when you are then going to quit it, unless you expect some dialog box to
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appear. Even so, the results would be slightly different if your
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applications was frontmost or not.
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> tell application "Finder"
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> activate
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> if exists folder "appfolder" of startup disk then
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> select folder "appfolder" of startup disk
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> delete selection
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> empty trash
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> else
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> quit application "Script Editor"
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> end if
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> end tell
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You have wrapped this part in a tell application "Finder", but it is already
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in one. It could be rewritten as:
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> if exists folder "appfolder" of startup disk then
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> delete folder "appfolder" of startup disk
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> empty trash
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> end if
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You don't need to make something the selection in order to work with it in
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the Finder. You can reference it directly.
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I could work out what you would want to quit the Script Editor if you
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weren't deleting the application's folder. If you save the script as an
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applet then the Script Editor wouldn't be running.
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--
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Matthew Smith
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