Re: How to make a background applet ?
Re: How to make a background applet ?
- Subject: Re: How to make a background applet ?
- From: Donald Hall <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:47:02 -0700
Not sure if you are in OS X or not, but one thing you can do there is
the following:
1.With ResEdit, open the script's plst resource.
2. Click on the right hand side of the window, Select All, and Copy
3. Open a plain text file in TextEdit and Paste. You will see a
standard .plist file format.
4. Add in a new property, LSUIElement, and set it to 1.
5. Select All in TextEdit, Copy.
6. Go back to ResEdit, and paste over top of the original plst resource body.
7. Save and close the resource file.
8. You now have a background script application that will not show in
the Dock or have a menu bar, but will be able to dialogs up on the
screen.
HTH,
Don
At 9:39 PM -0700 2003/03/24, Donald Hall wrote:
On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 03:35 AM, Kai wrote:
At 3:01 am +0000 23/3/03, Kai wrote:
You should be able to use ResEdit to modify 'SIZE' resource of your
saved
applet. Simply change the 'Only background' setting from 0 to 1.
[...]
For the benefit of anyone who may be unfamiliar with tweaking an
applet's
resources, one other point may be worth mentioning [1].
[...]
[1] Besides all the usual caveats about editing a file's resources.
Leonard Rosenthal has also said that there are other issues in
converting an AS applet to an FBA - in essence, that it shouldn't be
done with the standard app shell. He produced an applet shell for the
purpose, called 'ScriptFBA'. I haven't tried it in X.
I got my copy from his site:
<http://www.lazerware.com>
Cheers,
Bach A'Round
--
Donald S. Hall, Ph.D.
Apps & More Software Design, Inc.
email@hidden
http://www.appsandmore.com
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