Re: making an AS applet into a background app?
Re: making an AS applet into a background app?
- Subject: Re: making an AS applet into a background app?
- From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 07:17:42 -0500
on 5/2/2001 1:29 AM, Donald S. Hall at email@hidden wrote:
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Hi all,
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I am wondering if there is a way to make an Applescript applet into a
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background application - that is to say that once launched it would not
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appear in the Application Menu, but would quietly carry on doing its thing
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in the background. I suspect this is a job for ResEdit or a similar tool.
NO. Fooling around with bits in ResEdit without making corresponding
changes to the internal application code (something you have zero control
over with AppleScript) will produce a buggy app that will crash your
computer under the right circumstances. This is NOT advised.
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If such a change were made, what would be the implications to input and
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output from this applet? The applet would have no screen output save error
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dialogs, and the only user input needed would be to quit it if circumstances
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warranted this. (It would read and write data from/to files.)
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Thanks in advance for any advice or pointers to the appropriate
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documentation.
Why do you feel the need to make the applet invisible?
I have applets that run unattended for months. They do just fine. Simply
let it run as a normal applet in the background.
Otherwise, my suggestion is: roll up your sleeves and learn Macintosh
programming.
JR