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: James Reynolds <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 08:56:44 -0600
So which is it?
James Reynolds
At 10:41 AM +0100 5/2/01, Nigel Smith wrote:
Donald wrote:
I am wondering if there is a way to make an Applescript applet into a
background application
I've found the information at
<http://macsupporters.gold.ac.uk/background.html> very useful for this.
Nigel
At 7:17 AM -0500 5/2/01, JollyRoger wrote:
on 5/2/2001 1:29 AM, Donald S. Hall at email@hidden wrote:
Hi all,
I am wondering if there is a way to make an Applescript applet into a
background application - that is to say that once launched it would not
appear in the Application Menu, but would quietly carry on doing its thing
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.
If such a change were made, what would be the implications to input and
output from this applet? The applet would have no screen output save error
dialogs, and the only user input needed would be to quit it if circumstances
warranted this. (It would read and write data from/to files.)
Thanks in advance for any advice or pointers to the appropriate
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