Re: tell application "<some application>" to quit...
Re: tell application "<some application>" to quit...
- Subject: Re: tell application "<some application>" to quit...
- From: "Bob.Kalbaugh" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 09:58:11 -0500
on 9/2/01 8:02 PM, Andy Wylie at email@hidden wrote:
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on 3/9/01 9:00 AM, Bob.Kalbaugh at email@hidden wrote:
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> At any rate, all of this leads me back to the statement I made in my
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> original post. I don't think there is any easy *universal* way to quit
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> applications. Each one is different. But please, somebody prove this
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> otherwise.
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I've been using a simple universal quit all run from OSA Menu in Finder
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for at least a year and it's never failed but then I don't have Quark... for
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the sake of a few lines why not deal with it?
Well that makes sense, and currently I do work around it with a call to a
second script for Quark. Still, I would like to figure out a way to quit all
apps without the workaround.
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tell application "Finder" to ,
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set apz to name of application file of every process as list
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if "iTunes" is in apz then set sound volume to 1 with large range
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repeat with i in reverse of apz
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try
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tell application i to activate
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tell application i to quit
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on error m number n
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error {m, n}
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end try
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end repeat
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this is activated by a \Q+O keystroke mapped to my Intellimouse wheel down +
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fwd , +O to get around OSA Menu's sometime inability to get frontmost app
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and avoid confusion with \Q global quitter.
Hmmm. I see you do it in reverse. This is a good idea. I imagine it keeps
memory from becoming trapped, No? (just guessing)
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Quarkers don't post on the sabbath?___ Andy
I believe thee hast mistook me for a macromedionite. :-)
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bob.kalbaugh