Login Item AS Application Bundle Not Targeted
Login Item AS Application Bundle Not Targeted
- Subject: Login Item AS Application Bundle Not Targeted
- From: "Jesus Ross" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:08:56 -0600
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Hello list.
I hope you can help me.
I am a longtime mac user but still pretty green at AppleScripting.
At my employer, we run 2 HD tv's off of 2 mac mini's. The mini's auto
login to an account where the login item is an applescript that launches a
QuickTime stream and displays it full screen. With the Energy Saver
preference pane, the mini's turn on and shut down at scheduled times each
day.
We have had two screens up and running for months now and the script has
been working fine. But now I was trying to set up a 3rd and have run into
a problem.
The script loads on the 3rd Mini, but it just bounces in the dock, waiting
to clicked on before it will run. The same exact script will NOT need to
be clicked on to be the frontmost, active, application on the other 2
mini's.
So what are the differences?
I have double checked, and it is NOT saved as a startup application.
The new Mini has been updated to 10.4.11. The other two are 10.4.10.
Does anyone know for certain if this new Login Item behavior can be
attributed to 10.4.11?
I was hoping to make a master DISK IMAGE out of the 3rd Mini. So to
reduce the image size as much as possible I used the program MONOLINGUAL
to strip out some info from the 10.4.11 system. To be exact, I removed all
language and keyboard support apart from English and US English. AND I
removed all underlying architectures, i.e. all POWER PC support. These
Mini's are newish INTEL machines, so I figured that was okay.
Then I found out that Applescript exports Applications as PowerPC. These
Applications would not boot AT ALL. Just bounce a couple times in the dock
and then quit.
Then I found out that using an "Application Bundle" would put a Universal
"wrapper" around the script and it would launch. So far it has. In testing
it works great. If I am all ready logged in.
But when I set the Application Bundle to be an automatic Login Item, it
launches but is not selected. The script contains a countdown dialog box.
That countdown does not begin until the application is selected.
I tried saving a bundle on the 10.4.10 mini's. It worked fine and
automatically put itself in the foreground on start up.
Can anyone tell me exactly why the script is acting different on the
10.4.11, Monolingual'ed machine? Is there a known issue or change with
10.4.11? If so, are there any work arounds?
I would ask if anyone knew the Applescript commands to make a script
application choose itself and set itself to the "frontmost" application,
but from what I've seen so far, the script doesn't even begin to run until
you click it.
Any thoughts or insight anyone could share would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Jesus Ali Ross
ps: I will paste the script below fyi:
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Jesus Ali Ross, 414-847-3327, email@hidden
Time-Based Media Tech, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
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display dialog "TBM Stream Will Load in 30 Seconds" as string giving up
after 30 buttons {"I Can't Wait!"} default button 1
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
open location "rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/TBM02.sdp";
use high quality video setting when available
present document 1 scale normal
play document
end tell
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