Re: Prevent asking to locate application
Re: Prevent asking to locate application
- Subject: Re: Prevent asking to locate application
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 19:33:38 -0800
At 08:39p -0600 03/28/2004, Joseph Weaks didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
Hanaan,
You're not understanding the whole issue, so let me restate. I want to
send a script to other users for them to use. They provide the name of
the app in a dialog and then the script does it's stuff in that app
when the time comes to paste result in a word processor.
What if they misspell it? How will your script know what they meant?
I want to suppress the asking to locate an app altogether, no matter
what clever alias name you've given it.
Although, I use a variation of what you mentioned to my advantage at
another place. I created an empy applet called "the application you
want to use" so that it prompts the user:
"Find the application you want to use." hehe.
Well you will need either some sort of picklist, or hard-code everything.
You gave the example of "Microsoft Word" and "AppleWorks". Using that
example, behind the scenes you could have the following:
if appChoice is "Microsoft Word" then
ActivateApp("MSWD")
else if appChoice is "AppleWorks" then
ActivateApp("BOBO")
end if
on ActivateApp(sig)
tell application "System Events"
set frontmost of (process 1 whose creator type is sig) to true
end tell
end ActivateApp
-boo
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