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 10:44:07 PDT
- Comments: In-reply-to Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> message dated "Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:31:22 -0700."
OK, thanks, I'll give that a shot.
Bill
Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 3/10/09 10:09 AM, "Bill Janssen" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I wonder if there's a way to
> > say, "launch, then wait till that completes"? Or to query the app
> > for "launch completed"?
>
>
> tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
> launch
> tell application "System Events"
> repeat while (not (exists (process "Microsoft PowerPoint")))
> delay 0.1
> end repeat
> end tell
> open alias "PB iMac Main:Users:berkowitz:Documents:Presentation1.pptx"
> end tell
>
>
> You could try it with and without the delay.
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
>
>
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