AppleScript - "Where is System Events"

[Jim Sims]

On May 1, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Ian Wood wrote:

> Sometimes I need to find out what applications are currently running  
> on a Mac, and I've been using the following code to get a list:
>
> put "tell application" && quote & "System Events" && quote & "to get  
> name of every process" into tS
> do ts as applescript
>
> This normally returns an AppleScript list of application names, but  
> I've had a couple of people complaining that they are getting  
> prompted to choose an application with the warning "Where is System  
> Events".



It requires 10.3 I think, so maybe those people are using something  
under 10.3

sims
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