Re: LaunchD and applescript
Re: LaunchD and applescript
- Subject: Re: LaunchD and applescript
- From: Tommy Bollman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:39:37 +0200
What you can do, is having the script run by osa script run an applet.
I have done that and that worked fine.
On 21. juni 2010, at 20.53, André Renault wrote:
> Right. If you ran:
> osascript -e 'display dialog "You will never see me... EVER"'
> You'd get an error
> André Renault
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> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 20:48, Stan Cleveland <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On 6/18/10 7:20 AM, "Joy" wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to setup a launchd to run my applescript. When I manually
>> type in
>>> launchctl load name.of.plist, it loads, but the applescript requires
>> user
>>> input and I don't see the dialog box that asks for the user input.
>>>
>>> in my plist, the Program Arguments are
>>>
>>> osascript
>>> /path/to/script.app
>>>
>>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> Hi Joy,
>>
>> The osascript shell program does not allow user interaction, such as the
>> 'display dialog' command. You need to launch the script, not have osascript
>> read and execute the file contents.
>>
>> Sorry, but I'm not sure how you'd set that up in a plist/launchd scenario.
>> You could certainly set up the script application to be a startup item,
>> unless your requirements call for running it without logging into a user
>> account.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Stan C.
>>
>>
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