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: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 12:52:21 -0700
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>>>Bottom line - you should never attempt to turn a normal application you
have no control over into a faceless background application using ResEdit.
I totally agree here.This would not only cause instability in your system
it could very well be difficult for a regular user to track down.
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>>Now, we all know AppleScript applets present dialogs when things go
wrong and what-not. And there is nothing you can do to stop that, short of
rewriting the code that runs your applet - and last time I checked, Apple
wasn't open-sourcing AppleScript.
No, I don't think Apple is open sourcing AppleScript but I do believe they
do make information available for creating Applet Shells that allow
developers to create applets that do behave quite differently from the
standard Applet. This is a potential that's been there but has been
unexploited since AppleScript's first introduction.
ES