Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 652
Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 652
- Subject: Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 652
- From: Craig Hoyt <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:43:18 -0800
This is a followup to Malcoms reply to my questions...
I just tested and your solution and it is working perfectly. I
modified it slightly as I wanted the new page to open in the existing
window. I just removed the line < make new document at beginning of
documents >. This worked great! I have it working where the user can
specify the browser and the URL.
As for the other problem (ignoring errors), I still have problems
here...
In the above question (opening a URL in a browser) - if the user
chooses FireFox and FireFox does not exist on that computer a dialog
is presented requesting the user 'Find' the application. I want to
suppress this dialog. Is this possible? Try-End Try doesn't seem to
work. Is there a more direct way to suppress ANY and ALL errors.
Thanks,
Craig
Message: 2
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:24:00 +1100
From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Opening a specified URL in a specified browser
To: applescript users <email@hidden>
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On 28/12/2006, at 8:54 AM, Craig Hoyt wrote:
Happy Holidays All,
I'm currently going backwards on my project now... I had the 'open
location my_url' working and now I can't seem to even make this work
anymore.
I have a small background application (not AS) that calls AS
routines.
One such call is:
tell application "Safari" to activate
open location "http://www.google.com/";
end tell
location isn't a Safari object, you'll find open location in standard
additions. It uses system preferences to open a location in any given
browser. You can simply say:
open location "http://www.google.com/"; --> open url in default browser
To do the same thing within safari is much more effort:
tell application "Safari"
make new document at beginning of documents
set URL of document 1 to "http://www.google.com.au";
end tell
A second issue... I have another script that allows one to launch
(activate) an application from a user input. If the name selected is
misspelled or does not exist a dialog appears requesting the user
find
the file. I would like to have this fail without displaying any
dialog. Is this what the try is used for or is there some other way I
can stop a dialog from appearing.
try
open application XYZ
on error m number n
display dialog m
end
malcolm
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