Re: Issue: Hiding terminal on app launch (Mayank Agarwal)
Re: Issue: Hiding terminal on app launch (Mayank Agarwal)
- Subject: Re: Issue: Hiding terminal on app launch (Mayank Agarwal)
- From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:17:18 +0200
Just out of curiosity, why aren't using a "do shell script" command as advised?
Emmanuel
On Jun 6, 2012, at 6:59 PM, Mayank Agarwal wrote:
> Thanks for all the help, but unfortunately it didn't work.
> see i have created a package using package maker, inside package maker i am calling shell scripts.
>
> so after installing the package/application(flex application .dmg file + resources) i am creating an alias
> on desktop. Now when i double click that icon it opens a terminal window then my application. According
> to my understanding this terminal is executing my application. So, i want to completely hide this terminal.
>
> This terminal remains on desktop, the following code is helping me to minimize it
>> tell application "Finder/System Events"
>> set visible of process "Terminal" to false
>> end tell
> (My application is a flex application written in AS3, so i call this code from AS3 code
> i.e on application launch)
>
> But i don't want it in the dock also, i want it to hide completely.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Doug McNutt <email@hidden> wrote:
> At 21:10 +1000 6/6/12, Mr. Stetner Doug wrote:
> >Mayank,
> >
> >I am going to be ticked off when your installer hides all my terminal windows!
> >
> >Do what Steve mentioned and use 'do shell script'
>
> Be careful with do shell script. Some users, like me, try to run everything as a subprocess of a terminal session. The reason why is to preserve environment changes that are carried out in a shell initialization script.
>
> environment.plist doesn't seem to be very stable with newer versions of OSX. For me that is about 10.4
>
> Do shell script honors only the environment set by the system without any user sign on.
>
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