Way to put PPPoE status in menubar?

[RGould8 at aol.com]

Thanks! 

This is just what I'm looking for, except one thing - - - since this is for a 
commercial application, I can't use the beta of Rev 2.   If I can just get 
this working in Applescript, then I can get this working in Rev 1.1.1 with 
the Applescript PowerAdd-ons OSAX to make calls to the unix shell.

The problem I'm having is that if I do:

Shell "open /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/PPPoE.menu"

in Applescript, it gives me this error:

No such file: /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu

This makes me think that AppleScript doesn't like the space after the word 
"Menu".   AppleScript also doesn't like when I put quotes in the shell 
command like this:

Shell (open "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/PPPoE.menu")

it then says "can't open file due to AppleEvent error".

So unfortunately, this is turning more into an AppleScript problem as opposed 
to a Revolution problem, but either way, I'm still somewhat stuck.   Any 
advice is appreciated.

In a message dated 3/18/03 11:13:35 AM, kray at sonsothunder.com writes:


> 
> You can do it this way with Rev 2:
> 
>   
> 
>  on mouseUp
> 
>    set the hideConsoleWindows to true
> 
>    get shell("open " & quote & "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu 
> Extras/PPPoE.menu" & quote)
> 
>  end mouseUp
> 
>   
> 
>  Works for me in 10.2.4,
> 
>   
> 
> 
>  Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site:<A HREF="http://www.sonsothunder.com/"> http://www.sonsothunder.com/</A>
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of RGould8 at aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 8:44 AM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Way to put PPPoE status in menubar?
> 
> 
> I'm trying to figure out how to get Revolution to put the PPPoE status in 
> the menubar in Mac OS X.  (Basically mimicing what happens if the user were 
> to check the "show PPP status in menubar" checkbox in the networking pane).
> 
> After digging around in the web for a bit, I read that this will do the 
> trick in the terminal window:
> 
> /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/PPPoE.menu
> 
> However, when I go into the "Library" folder, I don't see this CoreServices 
> directory.  I'm assuming if I can get this working in terminal, then 
> there's a way to get AppleScript to make a call to the terminal from 
> Revolution to execute the command.  Anyone have an idea of what this syntax 
> might look like?
> 
> 
> 

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