Re: Scripting the Location
Re: Scripting the Location
- Subject: Re: Scripting the Location
- From: Craig Sutherland <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 09:36:28 -0500
When the network location choices and status are returned with
scselect, then using the same command to change the location is next.
Fiddling with this, scselect needs both the number and the name of the
location to make the switch. If there are 10 possible choices, how
would they be presented to the user? You end up with a textual
representation of the System configuration framework preference that
is stored in /var/db/systemconfiguration/preferences.xml. This same
info is presented in a GUI format with the Network Pref Pane. Has
moving the interface from GUI to text made the scripting user choices
better?
We can explore and find the under the hood mechanism, objects and
techniques that are the core of user interaction. In this case, it
looks like using the location menu item in the Apple menu along with a
good understanding of what can be done with the existing dynamic
network configuration is the best solution. As an exercise and learning
process, attempting to script this has been useful and fun, but is this
a path to implement a better interface than what is currently available
Craig
On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 06:00 PM, John C. Welch wrote:
On 08/30/2003 16:05, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
Actually there were two questions:
1. Why am I getting an ERROR in AppleScript?
This seems to happen if you get a large amount of text back. I've run
into
it in other things.
2. And is there any way to avoid it other than the try/error block I
used?
The error number is 1 (yup, 1) so I can trap for that number
particularly,
but I'd bet there's something more reliable I can do in the shell
script to
avoid the error.
Dunno off-hand.
john
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