force quit a FoxPro app from AppleScript?
force quit a FoxPro app from AppleScript?
- Subject: force quit a FoxPro app from AppleScript?
- From: Peter Schoenrank <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:53:46 -0700
Hello all,
I am using AppleScript and PreFab Player to script a custom FoxPro app
running on Mac OS 8.6 to perform required maintenance unattended
overnight.
(Yes, it would be easier to just change the FoxPro source, but I don't
have access to it. The company which owns the product is incompetent
and would charge too much to make the necessary changes. And hopefully,
within a year and a half the product will be replaced.)
I have managed to work around the fact that FoxPro doesn't use standard
dialog boxes, standard windows, or standard menus, but because the
script will be running unattended, I would like to be able to have the
script quit the FoxPro app in case of errors.
The FoxPro app does not respond to the quit event.
Telling the Finder to restart will not work because the FoxPro app will
not respond to the quit event.
I can't just have PreFab Player select "Exit" from the "File" menu (did
I mention that FoxPro doesn't use standard menus?), because in an error
situation the menu may not be enabled.
Having PreFab Player type option+command+escape in the FoxPro app does
nothing.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Peter
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Peter Schoenrank email: email@hidden
Computing User Services phone: 250-721-7696
University of Victoria fax: 250-721-8778
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