Re: AS & cron?
Re: AS & cron?
- Subject: Re: AS & cron?
- From: "Donald S. Hall" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:33:46 -0600
Michael,
Try my shareware application Script Timer, available at
<
http://www.theboss.net/appsmore>. (Just click on the Shareware and Freeware
button.)
Running AppleScripts via cron was discussed extensively on the mailing list
about 6 months ago. In short, they have to be made into applications if you
want to access any applications launched since your log in (including the
Finder). As you have discovered, this also applies to Cronnix which just
supplies a gui front end for cron.
Script Timer does not have this limitation, because, unlike cron, it runs
inside your user domain. With Script Timer you can schedule compiled
scripts, including ones with parameters, to run on a wide variety of times
or intervals and you can log return results from them. You can of course
schedule script applications as well.
Hope this helps,
Don
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Is anyone successfully running AppleScripts via cron? If so, would you care
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to briefly describe how you got it to work?
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Alternatively, Youpi Key has a timer mechanism, but it has limitations as a
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script runner. What I could do with YK is have it run a launcher script
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which would use another application to run the main script. (I don't want to
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compile the main script itself as an applet because of performance issues
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when running it manually.) What's the best low-overhead script runner out
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there that is itself scriptable enough to do what I have in mind?
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Thanks,
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Michael
--
Donald S. Hall, Ph.D.
Apps & More Software Design, Inc.
http://www.theboss.net/appsmore
email@hidden
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