launch app from browser
Mark Schonewille
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Thu Jul 12 14:09:28 EDT 2007
Hi Lars,
You want to embed some AppleScript inside a web site to be run from
Safari, which will launch your application. I know it can be done,
but I don't have the recipe at hand at the moment. I hope someone
else can help you with that.
Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
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Op 12-jul-2007, om 19:52 heeft Lars Brehmer het volgende geschreven:
> Thanks for replies to my original question, but I guess either what
> I had in mind and thought would be simple either isn't possible at
> all, or I just didn't ask the question in a way that any normal
> person could understand what I was trying to say. Sorry about
> that. When I say "launch an app from a browser" I do not mean
> launch or download an app on a server and I don't mean anything
> involving file down or uploading or anything of the sort. I don't
> mean anything involving any connection to the web or another server
> or another machine at all. I just mean "launch" in the simplest
> sense of the word - launch an app that resides on your hard drive.
> For example on a Mac in Mac Help you are looking at the help file
> for connecting to the internet. On that page in the help file
> there are links"open network diagnostics" and "open network
> preferences," which when clicked launch tose apps. These links do
> exactly what single clicking on a dock icon does or douple clicking
> on an app icon in the finder, or for that matter single clicking on
> an app icon in the Windows start menu or double clicking on an app
> shortcut on the desktop or on an app icon in the programs
> directory. All I want to know is whether or not you can have a
> hyperlink or button in an html document (that resides on your hard
> drive) and is open in your browser and that launches another
> application which also resides on your hard drive, exactly the way
> clicking on a mailto link in your browser opens your mail app or
> clicking on a link to a H.264 video file launches Quicktime
> Player. Or just like clicking on a web link in a rev document
> launches your browser and internet connection or using "launch" in
> a rev script launches any app you want it to launch. In this case
> the app I want to lauch is a simple standalone created in Rev.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lars
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