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Re: Using tell application "name" where the name comes from GUI Script...
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Re: Using tell application "name" where the name comes from GUI Script...


  • Subject: Re: Using tell application "name" where the name comes from GUI Script...
  • From: "Kevin Bohan" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:54:02 +0000

This seems to work. Thanks. Just a couple of points:

1. I changed the script from process to application process as per Bill Cheeseman's response to my mail.
2. Some applications may present a dialog when told to quit, so I put an "ignoring application responses" statement.
3. Some apps seem to cause some grief for my script I sometimes get a popup saying that there was an invalid connection. I don't know what this is, so I put a try block around it.
4. I have two process with similar creator type. They only differ by string case. One is the Dock which has a creator type of 'dock', and the other is DragThing which has a creator type of 'Dock'. The code you gave me doesn't distinguish between these two codes. So, I put a "considering case" block around it. However, this still doesn't work.

Any idea how I can get this to distinguish creator codes based on case?

Here's my new code:

tell application "System Events"
considering case
set pp to name of application processes whose creator type is not "CSOm" and ,
creator type is not "ToyS" and ,
creator type is not "VIZF" and ,
creator type is not "dplt" and ,
creator type is not "lgnw" and ,
creator type is not "syui" and ,
creator type is not "MACS" and ,
creator type is not "dock" and ,
creator type is not "sevs"
end considering
end tell

repeat with p in pp
try
ignoring application responses
tell application p to quit
end ignoring
end try
end repeat


If all you want to do is quit the applications, then no special terminology is involved. With the exception of a few 10++ year old applications, every app will respond to the required
--
name of processes whose creator type is not in {"CSOm", "ToyS"}
--

So you have to write it like this. Never put a 'quit' event within a Finder and (I guess) a System Events tell block.


tell app "System Events"
set pp to name of processes whose creator type is not "CSOm" and +AKw
creator type is not "ToyS" and +AKw
creator type is not "VIZF" and +AKw
creator type is not "dplt" and +AKw
visible is true
end
repeat with p in pp
tell app p to quit
end

--JD
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