Re: Running an application -- dock question
Re: Running an application -- dock question
- Subject: Re: Running an application -- dock question
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:05:18 -0400
On 04/23/2003 15:18, "David G. Simmons" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I have written a small (very small) Applescript to do random signature
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generation, and have a question about it.
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The first version ran in a repeat loop, with a delay in it, but running
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it this way seemed to use a TON of CPU time (consistently ran my CPU
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meter at about 80% on a 1 GHz G4), so I changed tactics and now it runs
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as a cron job every minute or so. However, every time it runs, it pops
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up in the Dock, then goes away. I wonder if either a) there is a way
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to stop it from popping up in the dock or b) have it not suck up so
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much cpu time in a delay.
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I know, I can use the 'random' signature feature of Mail, but, well, it
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you want to pull your sigs out of somethign like fortune, as I do, then
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that means creating THOUSANDS of signatures and then randomizing them.
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Not something I want to do, frankly.
Here's a URL to the one I did for iTunes and Mail:
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http://www.bynkii.com/applescript/archives/cat_mail_scripts.html>
The source is pretty well commented, use it as you like.
john
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never find him this far back."
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