Re: opening PowerPoint presentation without bringing to front?
Re: opening PowerPoint presentation without bringing to front?
- Subject: Re: opening PowerPoint presentation without bringing to front?
- From: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:09:57 PDT
- Comments: In-reply-to Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> message dated "Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:53:46 -0700."
Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 3/10/09 9:09 AM, "Bill Janssen" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Joe <email@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> The "launch" command will normally start up an application without bringing
> >> it to the front.
> >
> > "Normally" is the key word. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.
>
> Not true, that I've ever seen. 'launch' starts an app in the background,
> always.
So why am I seeing the PP splash screen? True, there's no "Presentation1"
opening up.
> If you first 'launch', then open a file, it should stay in the background.
> PowerPoint 2008 does. That's what 'launch' is for.
Yes, that's what the docs say, too. But that's not what I'm seeing :-).
Sometimes it works this way, sometimes it doesn't. I have a script that
I'm running over and over, and the results are unpredictable.
I wonder if the Apple Events are arriving out of order. That is, if the
"open" arrives before the "launch", or perhaps before the "launch"
completes. That might account for it. I wonder if there's a way to
say, "launch, then wait till that completes"? Or to query the app
for "launch completed"?
> No so odd, when you do things the correct way for what you want.
Well, it could just be a bug.
Bill
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