Re: LaunchD and applescript
Re: LaunchD and applescript
- Subject: Re: LaunchD and applescript
- From: Joy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:21:41 -0400
Thanks! This is what I did and all is working now.
On Jun 21, 2010, at 3:39 PM, Tommy Bollman wrote:
> 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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>
>
>
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