Re: Application responses
Re: Application responses
- Subject: Re: Application responses
- From: "Jeffrey L. McLean" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 04:10:45 -0500
To open the application without it's initialization routine you will have to
do something like ...
on open(ThisFile)
tell application ThisFile to launch
.
.
.
end open
This script is not tested, I just remember doing something like this after
reading about it in the AppleScript Language Guide.
Jeff
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From: Camilla <email@hidden>
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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:14:06 +0000
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To: AppleScript Users <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Application responses
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I wanted to launch the application by opening the dropped file instead of
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launching the application *then* opening the file, because it is not
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possible to know what the user's default settings are. It could be that
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AppleWorks is set to open a blank document on startup, or to display the
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starting points palette. I hoped to avoid anything like that happening.
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If I could script AppleWorks (et al) to launch without doing any extra
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stuff, that would be fine.
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