Calling applications
Calling applications
- Subject: Calling applications
- From: julifos <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:41:47 +0100
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My first post to this list.
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I would like to know if there is a way to call applications generically,
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meaning I don't wish to hard code the name of an application in my scripts.
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I have to compile my scripts again when somebody for example changes from
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QuarkXpress to QuarkXpress 4.1.
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Currently I put an alias to the program in the scripting additions in this
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case maybe "QX". I can then use tell application "QX".
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Is there a way to do something like:
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tell application <<appXPR3>> instead. Calling the creator would allow any
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version of quarkxpress to "listen" to my script.
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Regards,
This should be good enough:
tell application "Finder"
set Quark to name of application file id "XPR3"
end tell
tell application Quark
-- do whatever
end tell
JJ
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