Re: Folder actions steal UI foces
Re: Folder actions steal UI foces
- Subject: Re: Folder actions steal UI foces
- From: Simon Forster <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 11:54:26 +0100
On 24 May 2005, at 11:06, Johan Solve wrote:
Now in Tiger Launchd apparently offers another way to watch folders
using Watch paths (man launchd.plist for details). I'm thinking of
trying that to see if it works any better.
Interesting.
FWIW, I gave up using folder actions back in OS 8 or 9 days as they
proved to be somewhat flakey. Recently I've been using stay-open
scripts with idle handlers just to check an assigned folder on a
regular basis - until very recently when I wrote my first folder
action script for some time. It seems to work reliably enough but the
change of focus is somewhat irritating. Happily, this is on a remote
server dedicated to the task of processing the incoming files - so no
big issue here.
Launchd looks very interesting from a number of perspectives but with
respect to my relationship with AppleScript, once again it seems to
suggest that more robust *nix tools should be used for as much as
possible with just the final inter-application communication going
AppleScript (AppleEvent) -wards. And Apple seem to be facilitating
this drift quite nicely. The only problem is, which scripting tool?
Python is my tool of choice and the entity named "has" has integrated
AppleEvents with Python. Apparently. I've yet to get it to work.
Although I've only had once semi-serious play with it.
Got to go to a meeting but thanks for the heads-up wrt launchd.
Simon Forster
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