Re: osascript and Mac OS X v10.5.4
Re: osascript and Mac OS X v10.5.4
- Subject: Re: osascript and Mac OS X v10.5.4
- From: Francois Granade <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:26:20 -0700
Yes, yes, it's a bad idea... I'm not proud of it. It was more a "quick
way to do things" that stayed around than anything else. Better ideas
are welcome.
Since you asked: the script is here: http://tinyurl.com/ee-preflight .
Really nothing to be proud of. I'm installing additional software
(plugins) on top of an already installed applications (Eclipse
distributions). see http://www.easyeclipse.org for details. If
multiple distributions are already installed, I let the user choose
which installation he wants to install on. Also, I was warning him if
the plugin was already installed, but I know understand (thanks to
your insistence) it's useless and I can remove it.
François
On Aug 22, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Gignac, Jason (HAS-SAT) wrote:
I guess I'm curious what it is you're trying to do, here... Are you
trying
to make the installer pop up a dialog box to the user or something?
IF so,
I'd submit at this point that that is a trademarked "Bad Idea" as it
were.
Not that I can't imagine a sittuation where it would be useful, but
it's not
the 'right' way to do it. Are you trying to let the user configure the
installation or something? If so, would it perhaps be more
appropriate to do
it on the first run of the app?
On Aug 24, 2008, at 7:08 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote:
On Aug 22, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Francois Granade wrote:
But it's ugly, from the point of view of the user... Any other idea ?
If you tell application "System Events" to display the dialog, it's
less intrusive for the user.
I'm resisting dog-piling onto the Bad Idea Train :)
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