Re: Running a stay open applet in OS X... :-(
Re: Running a stay open applet in OS X... :-(
- Subject: Re: Running a stay open applet in OS X... :-(
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:54:28 -0700
On 4/21/02 3:43 PM, "Mr Tea" <email@hidden> wrote:
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This from Paul Berkowitz - dated 21/4/02 10.18 pm:
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> What happens if you first just
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> tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to activate
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That's precisely what I want to avoid. The whole point of this Applet is
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that it tells me if I have any interesting email when Entourage Mail is
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ticking away in the background. I can see for myself when it's active.
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Thanks, however, for your earlier confirmation that a script telling an
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application to run should not bring it to the front. That freed me up to go
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looking for the source of the problem elsewhere. It's a simple enough matter
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to re-jig the Entourage schedules so that the issue doesn't arise. Still
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looks like a bug, tho', or is that what you meant by 'an OS thing'?
I meant that it wasn't an Entourage bug.
Presumably you're only trying to avoid Entourage activating when it's run
from the repeating part of the schedule and may well be in the background?
Surely you've got Entourage in front when you're starting it up? No? You're
starting it up from a script too? And it doesn't come to the front itself
when you start it up?
Are you sure you don't want to just eave Entourage open all the time? then
you wouldn't have this problem. Don't forget you're in OS X now: if it's
open but not doing anything it's not wasting any resources.
I only put the 'activate Entourage' in because I thought you wanted
Entourage in front. You can just get the previous 'frontmost application'
and put it in front instead. If you're running something from Script.menu,
I've got a script stashed away somewhere that can get behind SystemUIServer
to find the real front app.
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Paul Berkowitz
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