Re: Apple Events from Windoze?
Re: Apple Events from Windoze?
- Subject: Re: Apple Events from Windoze?
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:08:02 -0600
- Thread-topic: Apple Events from Windoze?
On 11/26/06 12:53, "Matt Deatherage" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but does anybody offer a Windows
>> app that can send Apple Events to a Mac? Specifically, I'd love to be
>> able to fire up iTunes on my Mac from my Windows laptop.
>
> All this requires is a telnet/ssh connection where you can login and
> send the shell command "open /Applications/iTunes.app". *Controlling*
> it remotely is a different animal, but that's all you need to launch
> iTunes. If you have a shell session open, using "osascript" to send
> iTunes events (as Takaaki Naganoya suggested) may be easier than any
> other method of control, but you don't even need to get that complicated
> to open the application from a remote login shell. Just use "open".
>
> (If you have decided to invite personal pain by moving iTunes out of the
> /Applications folder, adjust your paths accordingly.)
If the network connection is stable, set up a shared folder on the windows
box, and mount it on the mac. Then setup an "adding items" folder action
that opens iTunes. When you want to start iTunes from the winders box, drop
a file into that folder.
--
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cripple the Federation. The Ferengi are doing the marketing and the
Klingons are writing the code."
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