Re: Stuck trying to use creatorid to control IE with OS 8.1
Re: Stuck trying to use creatorid to control IE with OS 8.1
- Subject: Re: Stuck trying to use creatorid to control IE with OS 8.1
- From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:38:04 +1300
on Sat, 14 Dec 2002 22:43:00 EST email@hidden wrote:
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Alright! I'm 99% there, thanks to you guys educating me on creator-types,
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GetSource commands, and raw event calls. The below script WORKS on Mac OS
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8.5, 8.6, 9.0, 9.1, and 9.2... Except Mac OS 8.1. That's what I'm
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struggling with now:
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set creaType to "MSIE"
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tell application "Finder" to open application file id creaType
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tell application "Finder" to set appOfMine to (the name of the first process
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whose creator type is "MSIE")
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tell application appOfMine
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set theSource to +event MSIESORC;
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display dialog "source = " & theSource
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end tell
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After trying a bunch of Applescripts, it appears that Mac OS 8.1 doesn't have
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an "open location" command either (i.e. tell application "Finder" to open
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location "http://www.apple.com";) I've got Internet Explorer 5.1 installed
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on Mac OS 8.1 and it runs, so the browser is definetely there.
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how about IE's OpenURL
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I'm also finding that Mac OS 8.1 will not run the above script because it
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doesn't appear to be able to find Internet Explorer by creator type "MSIE".
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It almost seems like Mac OS 8.1 just never acknowledges IE's existance. I'm
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not sure what to do about that.
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try...
tell application "Finder" to set appOfMine to (open application file id
"MSIE")'s name
_____________________________ Andy
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