Re: Detecting Applescript and SKYPE
Re: Detecting Applescript and SKYPE
- Subject: Re: Detecting Applescript and SKYPE
- From: Deivy Marck Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:59:48 -0400
On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:
On Oct 10, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Don Wieland wrote:
In the same vain, I like to detect if SKYPE is installed a machine.
The discussion got me to thinking that there's another way to detect
an application.
But I can't remember. So I did a little experimenting and came up
with this ...
tell application "Finder"
exists application file id "com.skype.skype"
end tell
If Skype is installed, this script returns 'true'. And your probably
thinking that it will return 'false' if it's not there. Wrong! It
errors. So, the script becomes ...
tell application "Finder"
try
exists application file id "com.skype.skype"
on error
false
end try
end tell
And if you are wondering where "com.skype.skype" came from ...
It's the application's 'Bundle identifier'.
To see an application's bundle identifier, open the package's
"Info.plist" file in the "Contents" folder with "Property List
Editor". The bundle identifier will be shown as 'Bundle
identifier' (or as 'CFBundleIdentifier', if you have Show Raw Keys
turned on.)
To make it even shorter:
try
get id of app "Skype"
on error
display dialog "Skype is not installed" giving up after 20
end
Deivy Petrescu
email@hidden
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