Apple

On 2009-06-12, at 08:36:43, Aaron Wyatt wrote:

Phil-

However, of course, there is no "AppleScript Runner" in 10.4. Nor have I found that "System Events" works in both OSes. So my question is, is there a cross-os way to do user interaction osascript calls from bash?

I haven't had a problem using "System Events" in 10.4 and 10.5. The call like the one illustrated above is not sufficient for doing user interaction with System Events though. Perhaps you can elaborate on the specific issues you have encountered.

SVP, Philip,

So the error is:
"execution error: No user interaciton allowed. (-1713)"

It seems to be a security thing (maybe?).

No. It's because System Events, when called from an non-windowserver process like osascript has to be jacked up to a windowserver level. In addition, you may have to reactivate the calling application process because osascript won't be considerate and do it for you. Here's something which I think will work on both systems. The key to success is the intent and ordering of the significant calls. There may be some minor changes of the details to get it to work on 10.4.

set ppname to missing value

set rslt to missing value

tell application "System Events"

set frapps to get name of every application process whose frontmost is true

set my ppname to item 1 of frapps

activate

display dialog "Boston - nuttin' like drivin' 'roun' in coicles."

set my rslt to POSIX path of every file of desktop folder whose visible is true

end tell

tell application ppname to activate

rslt

References:
	>Mac OS X 10.4: using osascript to interact with users (From: Aaron Wyatt <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Mac OS X 10.4: using osascript to interact with users (From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Mac OS X 10.4: using osascript to interact with users (From: Aaron Wyatt <email@hidden>)