Re: URL Access Scripting with progress
Re: URL Access Scripting with progress
- Subject: Re: URL Access Scripting with progress
- From: Scott Thompson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 00:25:01 -0500
On May 7, 2006, at 11:32 PM, dev_sleidy wrote:
If the above is not exactly what you want (or expect) - perhaps, in
a future MacOS X release (after multiple $129 somewhat annual
subscription installments) - such a feature will return. But then a
lot of us are still hoping for 'WindowShade', a real coco
'Finder', ...
The wittiness of your reply leaves me whelmed.
I have received helpul replies off-line that tell me this feature is
not a working feature of the Mac OS X "URL Access Scripting"
application.
For the sake of the posterity of anyone who may find this thread in
the archives, the references in the previous post to Mac OS 9 and
classic are simply red herring.
On Mac OS X Tiger, the URL Access Scripting component is installed at:
"/System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/URL Access Scripting.app"
The component will download a URL nicely provided you are careful
with the parameters. So far as I can tell, the compoent will not put
up any of the user interface components its parameters would suggest.
For example, It appears that the "with progress" or "progress true"
parameters to the event does not put up a progress dialog on Mac OS
X. (rdar://4539688).
Some things to look out for:
1. The argument to the "to" parameter cannot be just a path name, it
must be a file reference (i.e. 'file "pathname"' the word file is
important)
2. The parameter to replacing is "yes" or "no" while the rest of the
parameters accept boolean values (so you can't say "replacing true"
or "with replacing")
I've found no particular need to ask the URL Access Scripting
component to quit though it really doesn't seem to hurt.
Scott
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