Re: Hello again, more help needed..
Re: Hello again, more help needed..
- Subject: Re: Hello again, more help needed..
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:40:28 -0800
On 3/21/03 5:55 PM, "Yossie Silverman" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I need to write a small application (very small) that does a few simple
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things that could work great from a compiled AppleScript but for the
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fact that "application" applescript's have a resource fork and can't be
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made part of a package file.
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So, I suppose I need to use AppleScriptStudio - so be it. However, all
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the examples are COMPLEX compared to what I need which is for the
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application to start up, issue a few simple applescript message to
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finder and quit. No window, no menu's (if possible) - no nothing.
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Just a bundle of flat (datafork only) files that, when double-clicked,
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sends a few commands to finder. I tried creating a new
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applescriptstudio application and putting:
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on run
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tell finder to ..
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end run
What's finder. Some sort of variable you've defined somewhere? No? Maybe you
mean this?
tell application "Finder" to ...
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in it. That didn't work. Then I replaced run with launched. This
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didn't do anything either. The debugger appears to be useless for this
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simplest stuff.
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Is this possible?
If you use the correct syntax, sure.
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It is a damn shame that Mac OS X won't allow me to double-click a
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(unix) executable shell file and run it in a window for me. That would
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have done just fine!
Hello?
--
Paul Berkowitz
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