Re: getting a stay open script to do something on system wake up
Re: getting a stay open script to do something on system wake up
- Subject: Re: getting a stay open script to do something on system wake up
- From: kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 00:18:29 +0100
On Sunday, May 1, 2005, at 06:44 am, Donald Hall wrote:
I have a stay open script application that I want to execute a certain
handler when the computer wakes up. I don't think we have access to
pmgtwake any more like we did in OS 9. Here's what I'd like to have in
my stay open script:
on computerWakeHandler
-- do stuff
end computerWakeHandler
I've done some web searching but haven't come up with anything for OS
X. Does anyone know of a way to do this? Has someone written an osax
to get at the power management APIs?
I have a feeling that this has come up before, Don - but I don't recall
having seen a solution. It certainly would be handy to have access to
such a feature in OS X.
The only workaround that I can come up with at the moment is to mess
with date/time stamps. This means that a script won't react immediately
following a wake up - although it could be made to react differently,
once its normal idle period has elapsed. I don't imagine this is really
what you're looking for, but FWIW:
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property idleTime : 10 (* modify as required *)
property minDelay : 1 (* allow for external activity, etc. *)
property maxDelay : idleTime + minDelay
global dueDate
on regularStartupStuff()
delay 1 (* simulate some processing *)
end regularStartupStuff
on regularIdleStuff()
delay 2 (* simulate more processing *)
end regularIdleStuff
on wakeup()
activate
beep
display dialog "Who woke me up?" buttons ¬
{"Me"} default button 1
(* trap for any errors, cancel buttons, etc. *)
set dueDate to (current date) + minDelay
end wakeup
on idle
if (current date) > dueDate then wakeup()
regularIdleStuff()
set dueDate to (current date) + maxDelay
idleTime
end idle
on run
regularStartupStuff()
set dueDate to (current date) + minDelay
end run
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kai
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