Re: Launching application through web browser(netscape/IE)
Re: Launching application through web browser(netscape/IE)
- Subject: Re: Launching application through web browser(netscape/IE)
- From: JJ <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 15:40:18 +0200
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Hi,
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Is there any way to use the applescript or any scripting language to
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directly launch an application which is present on a machine by running it
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through web browsers.
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Can I sent an apple event through a browser to directly launch an
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application.
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Code snippet will be very useful since I am a newbie in this area.
Using JScript's ActiveX events will only work under windows and the way to
do this through applescript is a little bit of long and a little bit of
confuse. You need make an applet-droplet handling a "GURLGURL" event:
on <<event GURLGURL>> (some_stuff)
-- do whatever you want
end <<event GURLGURL>>
Then, configurate it as an application helper to handle some special
protocol, such as "launchapp://Finder" (as if it was "
mailto:"; with Eudora
or "hotline:" with Pitbull). Then, the end-user that configurated correctly
your handler-app, will click under your link, and this will happen:
<click> (link to "launchapp://Finder")
<IE or Netscape>: hey, man, handler-app, handle this:
<<event GURLGURL>> "launchapp://Finder"
<handler-applescript-app>
on <<event GURLGURL>> (some_stuff)
if some_stuff contains "Finder" then
tell application "Finder" to activate
end if
end <<event GURLGURL>>
This handler-app needs a single-original signature (creator code), so the
browser can distinguis between Pitbull ("PitB") and your app (not "aplt" or
"dplt", but "lnCh" or "cTaP" or "xxxx" or ...)
...
JJ
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