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Re: "Applescript Runner"
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Re: "Applescript Runner"


  • Subject: Re: "Applescript Runner"
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2017 16:04:08 +1100

On 1 Apr 2017, at 3:12 pm, Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 1) Applescript Runner does not seem to exist anymore. Is there anything that replaces it?
> 2) it looks like the bug has been fixed, the code can be run normally from the command line. Is there a need to provide code to access Applescript Runner (or the current equivalent) to solve similar issues (if they happened to exist)?

It wasn't a bug -- it was simply that osascript, which runs scripts from the command line, had no UI. This changed in 10.9. From the release notes:

> osascript(1) is now a “UI element” process and can therefore display its own UI, such as using display dialog; telling another application such as System Events is no longer necessary. [12365409]

--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>



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