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Re: tell Grog to glog
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Re: tell Grog to glog


  • Subject: Re: tell Grog to glog
  • From: "J. Stewart" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:27:57 -0500

On 1/11/07 at -0600 Luther Fuller said this

<snip>
>I've just noticed something while taking my own advice ... and it's
>not perfect.
>
>'someHandler' is a handler in the application 'fullPathName' whose
>result I wanted, so I wrote in my script ...
>
>	launch application fullPathName
>	tell application fullPathName to set x to someHandler()
>
>It did work correctly, but has an unfortunate side-effect. The icon
>of 'fullPathName' appears in the Dock for just a second or two
>whenever I make this call. I find this distracting. Very distracting.
>One work-around is to make 'fullPathName' a background-only
>application. (I may do this.) Otherwise, you seem to be stuck with
>this distraction.

Luther,

If the app is a bundle try adding this in the <dict> section of the app bundle's info.plist

  <key>LSUIElement</key>
  <true/>


If the app has no user interaction then you may be able to use this instead:

 <key>NSBGOnly</key>
 <true/>

JBS
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