Apple

On 2007-11-26, at 15:20, Mike Kobb wrote:

I'm developing a little script that needs to be executed via osascript. It's getting run as part of an installer, and its job is to quit System Preferences if it's open.

I've written the script in Script Editor and tested it, and it works fine. However, when I invoke the same script with osascript, I'm getting incorrect behavior. I'm hoping somebody can help me. This is on Leopard, by the way (10.5.1).

Here's a scaled-down test case of my little script:

-- We refer to applications by id rather than name in case of localization
tell application id "com.apple.systemevents"
set everyProcess to bundle identifier of every process

-- Start by quitting System Preferences, since we're installing a new pref pane
if "com.apple.systempreferences" is in everyProcess then

-- activate first, so that if quitting the app presents a dialog, it will be visible
tell application id "com.apple.systempreferences" to activate
end if
end tell

As I noted, this works fine in Script Editor. If System Preferences is running, it comes to the front. If it's not running, nothing happens.

If I save this as a text file, then run it via osascript:

osascript myScript.txt

...then System Preferences launches to handle the "activate" message.

I've tweaked the script to show me the contents of everyProcess, and com.apple.systempreferences is in there. Am I doing something wrong (e.g. with my "is in" syntax), or...?

I'm sorry if this is a n00b question, but I'm a 20-year C++ programmer working my head around AppleScript. ;-)

Thanks much,
--Mike

PS: I've developed what I think are a couple of very handy scripts for Safari. Is there a good place to post them?

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	>Problem with osascript command (From: Mike Kobb <email@hidden>)