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: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:42:59 EDT
Sachin,
I'm still considering your original question... Slightly
off-topic, you might be interested in taking a look at
Timbuktu, a remote control software package. It will let
you do anything the user can traditionally do from the
machine itself, which is very useful for user training and
remote maintenance...
On a different note, if the remote mac has filesharing over
TCP/IP enabled (with program linking/embedding turned on),
you should be able to spawn processes that way, but that
still removes the whole web browser front end... Still,
this is the cheapest solution, since no additional software
must be purchased.
Yet another possibility is taking a look at network
management software (NMS), which should permit the same
type of access (Apple has some form of NMS application
available, but I haven't tinkered with it).
Finally, to address your question directly (or as much as I
can: 2 possible answers):
Microsoft's office macro capability can probably trigger an
applescript through VB for Apps, which would conceivably
let you do everything you asked for, if the machine has
already been configured with VB for Apps and the MS
background scripts are there (this is all supposition on my
part, but it's how people exploit Explorer/Entourage to
take control of a user's machine -- whether that capability
would extend to launching an AppleScript is pure
conjecture).
The second possibility is definite: if the remote mac is
running WebStar (a web server software package for the
mac), then it can be programmed to launch & run
applescripts from browser interactions. This function is
traditionally used to generate html/xml data on the fly,
but could just as easily be used to do other tasks. This
would make the interface browser-independent.
Hope that illuminates things...
=-= Marc Glasgow
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