tapping into finder events

[Mark Smith]

Well I agree, really, but what you're after is really getting at the  
guts of the OS - so it would be up to developers to make it available  
to users in a way that they can deal with. One of the things that is  
cool about Revoluton is that nearly everything is at a nice high  
level, but if necessary, one can get a bit low level when necessary,  
within reason.

Best,

Mark

On 10 Jan 2008, at 02:45, Randall Lee Reetz wrote:

> 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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