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: Ehsan Saffari <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 04:51:31 -0600
On Fri, 4 May 2001 12:55 -0700, email@hidden wrote:
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> JollyRoger <email@hidden> wrote:
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>The question is: can you guarantee that an applet will never display a
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>dialog?
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Yes, that is the question. I don't know. But, I do know that there is the
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potential for a developer to modify or replace the standard AppleScript
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applet with a shell. As far as I know no one has made applet shells
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available and if they were available I don't know if they would be able to
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guarantee they would never display a dialog. And if they could guarantee
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that, I don't know what a guarantee like that would mean... Double your
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money back?
see
http://www.latenightsw.com/sd2.0/developer.html
FBA's are specifically mentioned.
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> JollyRoger <email@hidden> wrote:
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>there is nothing you can do to stop that, short of rewriting the code
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>that runs your applet - and last time I checked, Apple wasn't open-sourcing
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>AppleScript.
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Actually this is what I was referring to, that it MAY be possible to
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prevent an applet from displaying dialogs by rewriting the applet shell.
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This is way beyond the realm of ordinary AppleScripter. We really must
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wait and hope for a developer to make those tools available or start
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learning C and do it ourselves.
If that is true then
Dang
else
I wanna
end if
cheers
ehsan