tapping into finder events

[Randall Lee Reetz]

I remember when the good people at xerox parc built this great graphical front end so that memorizing a thousand command line utterances would become a thing of the past.

So, given the dozen or so languages and protocols i am forced to know (applescript, appleevents, xtalk, unix commands, xml, html, dhtml, perl, c, c++, c#, java, javascript, etc...) and the fact that the solution being sugested demands that i enter a root user mode that apple itself spends considerable amount of energy dis-recomending, i wonder what has become of "computing for the rest of us?"

But i do thank you for the info and advice.  I am looking for a solution generalizable to "everyone"... Otherwise it will ultimately fail for me.  Can you imagine telling your users to start a root account?

randall
-----Original Message-----
From: "Mark Smith" <mark at maseurope.net>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: 1/9/2008 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: tapping into finder events

Randall, 'open process' is a way of opening other apps and being able  
to communicate with them.

For example (this works on OS X with Rev 2.9, but won't with earlier  
versions of Rev), to run an interactive session in the bash shell:

on mouseUp
     put "/bin/bash" into tProc
     open process tProc for binary update
     write "echo $USER" & cr to process tProc
     wait 10 millisecs
     read from process tProc until empty
     put it
     close process tProc
end mouseUp

you should now see your username in the message box.

Hope this helps,

Mark



On 9 Jan 2008, at 08:17, Randall Lee Reetz wrote:

> What does "open process[ing]" something  do? How do you do it?
>
>
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