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