tapping into finder events

[Mark Smith]

JB, try making the wait a bit longer. The script worked exactly as is  
on my machine,

Best,
Mark
On 10 Jan 2008, at 02:58, -= JB =- wrote:

> Mark,
>
> I put your script in a mouseUp button and tried it
> but all it did was show the message box without
> any info in it.
>
> I am using OS X 10.4.10 and Rev 2.9 Enterprise.
>
> -=>JB<=-
>
>
> On Jan 9, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
>
>> 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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