Re: lock the screen from the keyboard, win a prize
Re: lock the screen from the keyboard, win a prize
- Subject: Re: lock the screen from the keyboard, win a prize
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:07:44 +0000
- Mac-eudora-version: 5.3a9
At 7:34 pm -0500 25/11/02, Paul Skinner wrote:
On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 05:01 PM, Philip Aker wrote:
do shell script "defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver
askForPassword -integer " & val
Excellent!
Unixy goodness. mmmm...
set previousState to do shell script "defaults -currentHost read
com.apple.screensaver askForPassword "
do shell script "defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver
askForPassword 1"
tell application "ScreenSaverEngine" to run
do shell script "defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver
askForPassword -" & previousState
I love it when a thread works out. It's hard to imagine where
this is all going to be in a year. So much to learn.
Yes indeed!
On my machine I still need the delay, and in order to avoid a dialog I use
open -a in the shell rather than tell app... This can also be
appended to the previous command.
set s to " com.apple.screensaver askForPassword "
set val to do shell script "defaults -currentHost read " & s
do shell script "defaults -currentHost write " & s & "1
;open -a ScreenSaverEngine"
delay 5
do shell script "defaults -currentHost write " & s & val
This ability to write easily to plist files means we can probably get
the functionality of one of the old osaxim (Donald's commands ???),
namely to set the default path for open dialogs etc., which Frontier
and OneClick always had but which was always a pain in AppleScript.
At 9:40 pm -0500 25/11/02, Paul Skinner wrote:
Has anyone else lost the ability to run a text selection as script
using CompileAndExecute service since they upgraded to Jaguar?
Can you give an example to show what you mean?
JD
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