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Re: Locating A Menu Item
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Re: Locating A Menu Item


  • Subject: Re: Locating A Menu Item
  • From: Jim Lindholm <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:01:29 -0700

On Tuesday, Jul 29, 2003, at 03:31 US/Pacific, Charles Arthur wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:46:20 -0700, Jim Lindholm <email@hidden> wrote:
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And... yes, you are correct, I am trying to script a modem connection
WITHOUT using Internet Connect... Jim

I'm sure I've read this thread all the way through, and I don't understand
your antipathy to launching IC if you're so mad keen to script this.

After all, you could simply launch it at login if this is going to be some
completely unattended machine (because you'll still need to log in, after
all). It's not going to take up any significant memory or processing power
unless it's actually doing something - remember, this is Unix, not Classic
Mac, where there was a real penalty for having any app running. Quiescent
apps will get paged out if needed in OSX.

Then you know you'll have the app available, and be able to script
connect/disconnect. All this stuff with GUI scripting menu items frankly
seems like scripting masochism.

Are you saying it doesn't matter how many applications are loaded in OS X and that system performance is not affected in OS X by the number of applications that are loaded at one time?

Having been involved with Mac OS for several generations prior to Mac OS X, when problems occurred... one reduced the number of applications running for less problems and better efficiency due to ram availability. Is not this the case with OS X?

If this is true, I have no problem having "Internet Connect"... or any other application being loaded that might be needed.

Not being a developer/programmer... this is new to me. Currently, I Quit applications when I have finished with them... launching them again the next time they are needed. Comments anyone?

--snip--

This all reminds me of what Douglas Adams said about scripting - something
along the lines of spending a whole day writing a program to save five
minutes. (The exact quote eludes me, and Google.)

I prefer to use keyboard commands instead of the mouse if possible... Jim
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