Re: Command to start my program
Re: Command to start my program
- Subject: Re: Command to start my program
- From: Bruce Truax <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:56:48 -0400
- Thread-topic: Command to start my program
Joey,
Take a look at "The IRAF Button" written by Mariachi Software available at
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~marcosh/iraf/iraf_button.html. This is an
AppleScript Studio application which sounds like it does what you want for
some astronomy software. Source code is available.
Bruce Truax
On 10/5/05 11:41 AM, "Joey Mukherjee" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I am really interested in creating a more Mac like start program for my
> applications which are a mix/match of native applications, X11
> applications, and Tcl/Tk stapacks. If you don't know what the last one
> is, it is like an executable that can be run from the command line.
>
> We have our own custom installer which is identical for all platforms
> (Windows, Mac, Unix) which puts things in either the user's home
> directory or /usr/local or another directory of their choosing. After
> the program is installed our way, I'd like to drop <something> into the
> users Applications folder or Desktop or whatever that the user can
> click on to start our software.
>
> What I am having a problem with is how to easily create that
> <something>. I was thinking of AppleScript but I don't really know it,
> but am willing to learn if this is something I can write(and then
> compiled?) and can be distributed with our application that will
> basically look for our software in the common locations and if not
> found, ask the user where it is installed, save that information, and
> then run our start program as if they typed it from the command line,
> as well as maybe start X11 if it isn't already loaded.
>
> Alternatively, I could write a Cocoa? program which would do the same
> thing?
>
> OpenOffice has a similar deal I think and I don't know how they did
> their start program, but I think ours could be similar.
>
> Since other Unix/X11 porters probably have similar issues, does anyone
> have an idea of a good starting position for me or another alternative
> that I did not think of? If anyone has some Applescript they could
> send me that I could modify, I'd be eternally grateful! :-)
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Joey
>
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