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I
wanted to do the same as Neil did and even after trying both solutions I could
not have the script end until Safari quit... It basically waits until the
process which it started would end.
On run did not change anything... Having both "ignoring
application responses" and "on run" will not allow to compile, and having only
"ignoring..." keeps the script open as well.
If I add "quit
script" to it, then it states that the script cannot quit until the process has
finished.
Any one have other
ideas or suggestions on how to resolve this ?
Frank
On 8 Jun 2005, at 02:50, Brian Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Neil Lee wrote:
I created a very basic applescript application that
only has to run a shell command and then quit. Here's the code:
on run
do shell script "/Volumes/lester/Development/Webkit/WebKitTools/
Scripts/run-safari &"
quit
end run
The problem is that after Safari launches, the
script applet doesn't quit. It hangs and I have to force quit
it.
I think this is it... Look at this line from one of
my scripts
set x to "/scripts/stopmysql > /dev/null 2>&1&"
The stuff at the end insures that the "do shell
script" that comes next returns immediately, so my script can quit (or, in
this case, poll the mysql process to see if it's quit yet).
This is explained in "TN2065-do shell script.pdf" on
the apple dev web site (sorry, I downloaded my copy ages
ago).
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I think that the problem is that
the Script is set to run in the background (the & at the end it it tells it
to do this)
- So I am presuming that the
script takes some time to run - ie more then just a few seconds.
So Your Apple Script has to wait
for it to finish running, before it too can finish.
However it is not necessary for
the AppleScript to wait - since the script is running in the background not the
foreground.
So in AppleScript you could
say:
"ignoring
application responses" - and then AppleScript is allowed "to
finish"
- even though
the script it is running (in the background) has not itself yet
finished.
EG:
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ignoring application
responses
on
run
do shell script
"/Volumes/lester/Development/Webkit/WebKitTools/ Scripts/run-safari
&"
end run
end ignoring
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-- Peter
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