Re: osascript help needed

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2006


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 67876
interpreted = N
texte = I'm on OS X. Does anyone know why this doesn't run the chess application? I've tried it will relative and absolute paths to the Chess app and it doesn't run. Is there something I need to do inorder to allow the www user to launch applications? [TEXT]vShell=3D-e 'tell application "Chess"' [/TEXT] [TEXT]vShell=3D[vShell]-e 'activate' [/TEXT] [TEXT]vShell=3D[vShell]-e 'end tell'[/TEXT] [SHELL]/usr/bin/osascript [vShell][/SHELL] On Aug 7, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Pat McCormick wrote: > I'm trying to launch Toast Titanium from a web page and then send > it a series of files to be added to a disk. > > I can get > [shell]cd / > ls -l[/shell] > to work. > > I can put > > tell application "Toast Titanium" > activate > end tell > > into a file called "as-kick.scpt" and then type > > /usr/bin/osascript /Library/WebServer/Documents/as-kick.scpt > > at the shell prompt, which launches Toast Titanium as expected. > > I've set permissions for as-kick.scpt to let everyone read/write > the file and even changed the owner to www, but I can't get > > [shell]usr/bin/osascript /Library/WebServer/Documents/as-kick.scpt[/ > shell] > > to launch Toast Titanium. > > Anyone know what I'm messing? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to digest@talk.smithmicro.com> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: osascript help needed ( Donovan Brooke 2006)
  2. Re: osascript help needed ( Pat McCormick 2006)
  3. osascript help needed ( Pat McCormick 2006)
I'm on OS X. Does anyone know why this doesn't run the chess application? I've tried it will relative and absolute paths to the Chess app and it doesn't run. Is there something I need to do inorder to allow the www user to launch applications? [text]vShell=3D-e 'tell application "Chess"' [/TEXT] [text]vShell=3D[vShell]-e 'activate' [/TEXT] [text]vShell=3D[vShell]-e 'end tell'[/TEXT] [shell]/usr/bin/osascript [vShell][/SHELL] On Aug 7, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Pat McCormick wrote: > I'm trying to launch Toast Titanium from a web page and then send > it a series of files to be added to a disk. > > I can get > [shell]cd / > ls -l[/shell] > to work. > > I can put > > tell application "Toast Titanium" > activate > end tell > > into a file called "as-kick.scpt" and then type > > /usr/bin/osascript /Library/WebServer/Documents/as-kick.scpt > > at the shell prompt, which launches Toast Titanium as expected. > > I've set permissions for as-kick.scpt to let everyone read/write > the file and even changed the owner to www, but I can't get > > [shell]usr/bin/osascript /Library/WebServer/Documents/as-kick.scpt[/ > shell] > > to launch Toast Titanium. > > Anyone know what I'm messing? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to digest@talk.smithmicro.com> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Pat McCormick

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