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Re: Saving & closing iData via an Applescript
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Re: Saving & closing iData via an Applescript


  • Subject: Re: Saving & closing iData via an Applescript
  • From: John Stewart <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 05:01:27 -0400

On 10/11/02 at 9:35 PM, the entity OzSprings spoke thusly

>One of the things that iData doesn't have is an automatic save which
>means that when I shut down my Mac and go away, I return to find
>that my Mac hasn't shut down because it is waiting for me to save my
>iData files.
>
>iData is AppleScriptable and I have tried to create a script to go
>into my shutdown folder in the system folder, but not knowing
>Applescript very well, I quit the Finder instead of iData. Obviously
>my approach to syntax needs improving.
>
>The iData AppleScript commands are Quit and Save:
>
>quit: Quit iData
> quit
> [saving yes/no/ask] -- Specifies whether or not to
>save currently open documents
>
>
>and
>
>save: Save an object
> save reference -- The datafile to save - default is current datafile
>
>Can anyone help me with this? Your advice may also help me understand
>how to apply the correct syntax for other scripts I might want to
>run, so I can figure out things for myself in the future.
>
>Any help would be most appreciated
>
>
>Kind regards
>
>
>Oz


this is probably what you are looking for, it works OMM -

tell application "iData Pro" to quit saving yes


John
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