tapping into finder events

-= JB =- sundown at pacifier.com
Thu Jan 10 06:28:42 EST 2008


Mark,

Thanks,  you were right.  I increased the wait time
and it worked just like you said.

-=>JB<=-

On Jan 10, 2008, at 2:17 AM, Mark Smith wrote:

> 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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