Re: detect launch of file?
Re: detect launch of file?
- Subject: Re: detect launch of file?
- From: Phil Calvert <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:37:49 -0800
Actually, I *did* mean open file--sorry for any confusion and thanks
everyone, for all the replies. What I wanted is a script that will do
certain actions only if a certain file type is opened.
Thanks
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on 3/14/2001 3:40 PM, Dale Saukerson at email@hidden wrote:
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> At 12:45 PM -0600 3/13/01, Jolly Roger wrote:
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>> on 3/12/01 11:45 AM, Phil Calvert (email@hidden) wrote:
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>>> Is there any way (via applescript) to detected the launch of a file? I
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>>>want
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>>> an applescript to do something only if a certain file type is launched.
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>> Hi Phil,
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>> In the future, it would help avoid confusion if you would use the correct
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>> terminology. You don't "launch" files, you "open" them. Also, you should
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>> refer to applications as "applications" or "application files", not
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>>"files".
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> "Launching" is NOT an uncommon term for starting an application
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Um, I never said "launch and application" was bad terminology.
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What I did say is that "launch a file" was bad terminology. As you can see
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above, Phil said "launch of a file", not launching an application. If he
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had said "launch of an application" or "open of a file", his question would
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have been clear, and there would have been no need for this thread to begin
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with.
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> --but I agree it is unclear if Phil want's to monitor an application or a
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> specific file type. (I suspect the latter).
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So do I. But that doesn't change the fact that he used the word "launch" in
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reference to a document/file - and that is bad terminology.
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JR