Re: An AppleScript question

[Kevin Warner]

On 15/05/2009, at 11:40 PM, Shay Telfer wrote:



On 15/05/2009 6:35 PM, Kevin Warner wrote:

tell application "uTorrent"
activate
end tell

tell application "iTunes"
activate
end tell

and

tell application "uTorrent"
quit
end tell

tell application "iTunes"
quit
end tell

What am I doing wrong?

Any help will be gratefully received.


At a guess, the computer's busy doing stuff (torrenting and  
iTuning), and the Apple Events are timing out so that Applescript  
isn't getting a response in its require time period.


Perhaps

with timeout of 600 seconds
tell application "uTorrent" to quit
end timeout

or alternatively

ignoring application responses
tell application "uTorrent" to quit
end ignoring

We have a couple of scripts triggered by iCal to start iTunes that  
seem to fail regularly too... Sigh. Will have to try this with them.


Have fun,
Shay

--
=== Shay  Telfer  

Perth, Western Australia   Technomancer  The love of liberty is the  
love
Opinions for hire  [POQ] of others; the love of  
power is
http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves -  
Hazlitt


-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 


Thanks Shay, I'll try that!

Kevin




Kevin Warner
__
Press CTRL-ALT-DEL now for an IQ test.

Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid  
users ?


Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code.

There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand  
binary, and those who don't.


Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."

The box said 'Required Windows XP or better'. So, I installed LINUX.

I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so  
good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'.


Mac users swear by their Mac... PC users swear at their PC.





-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

Re: Printer driver upgrade

[Mervyn & Giuliana Bond]

On 15/05/2009, at 5:54 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:




I am running OSX 10.4.11 on an iBook.
Connected to the iBook is an OKIPAGE 8 printer which is functioning.
In System Profiler it says the printer driver is 1.1.0


Which model  of   OKIPAGE 8  ?


It is an LED USB Laser printer circa 2000.



Presumably it is connected by USB ! ?

Why are you looking for a new driver  ?  ( You said it is functioning ! ? )


The printer is plugged into my wife's iBook which is running on OSX 
10.4.11 and I share the use of it on my intel iMac running OSX 
11.5.7.  I can print from my iMac but I can't access the functions 
of the printer. I thought a more recent driver on the iBook might 
at least allow me to choose the print resolution.



Last night I downloaded version 8.4 for OSX 10.2 and above.



Do you know from what ISP site ?


http://www.okidata.com/mkt/html/nf/Drivers.html



So I looked at that site but so far did not find your version 8.4 
shown  did see the 1.1.0


Checked again. You are right - I was doing a 'get info' on the 
Installer version   The small print on the download page shows 
1.1.0











I ran the installer then went to System Preferences - Print & Fax 
- Selected the OKIPAGE from the list - clicked on + but could not 
find a way of getting to the new driver.

Another path was not to click on + but Printer Setup.



You ran the installer on which Mac


Both


   ?

If you are trying to install on the intel iMac , during the Instal 
process it may help

if you had the printer plugged directly into that iMac  !


There are 3 places to look to see where and whether the driver was loaded

Hard drive - Library - Printers

Hard drive - System - Library - Printers

Your user - Library - Printers

The list of names I have includes a bundle of names but not a sight of Okidata
so I do not know at this time whether the installer can create a 
folder for that name

or what it does with the driver if it needs that folder but cannot find it .

more later


OKidata appears in user - library - Printers and in
Hard drive - Library - Printers but not in
Hard drive -System - Library - printers

Bob, there appears to be no update driver so I guess we should drop the topic
Thank you for your perseverance.
Regards
Merv




Bob


--
"Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must 
also believe in order to see."


-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

Re: Printer driver upgrade

[Robert Howells]

On 15/05/2009, at 5:54 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:


Bob
Thank you for responding given your domestic circumstances.  I hope  
the hip procedure was a success and that care during convalescence  
gives a 100% result.



On 15/05/2009, at 1:07 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:


I am running OSX 10.4.11 on an iBook.
Connected to the iBook is an OKIPAGE 8 printer which is functioning.
In System Profiler it says the printer driver is 1.1.0


Which model  of   OKIPAGE 8  ?


It is an LED USB Laser printer circa 2000.



Presumably it is connected by USB ! ?

Why are you looking for a new driver  ?  ( You said it is  
functioning ! ? )


The printer is plugged into my wife's iBook which is running on OSX  
10.4.11 and I share the use of it on my intel iMac running OSX  
11.5.7.  I can print from my iMac but I can't access the functions  
of the printer.



I thought a more recent driver on the iBook might at least allow me  
to choose the print resolution.



Merv

Cups has some drivers for OKIpage

One of those may give you the choices you are looking for

The Cups drivers are available in 10.5.6and if they are not  
supplied in Tiger


you should be able to find and download what you need from here : -



Bob

-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

Re: Printer driver upgrade

[Mervyn & Giuliana Bond]

On 15/05/2009, at 5:54 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:


Bob
Thank you for responding given your domestic circumstances.  I hope 
the hip procedure was a success and that care during convalescence 
gives a 100% result.



On 15/05/2009, at 1:07 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:


I am running OSX 10.4.11 on an iBook.
Connected to the iBook is an OKIPAGE 8 printer which is functioning.
In System Profiler it says the printer driver is 1.1.0


Which model  of   OKIPAGE 8  ?


It is an LED USB Laser printer circa 2000.



Presumably it is connected by USB ! ?

Why are you looking for a new driver  ?  ( You said it is functioning ! ? )


The printer is plugged into my wife's iBook which is running on OSX 
10.4.11 and I share the use of it on my intel iMac running OSX 
11.5.7.  I can print from my iMac but I can't access the functions 
of the printer.



I thought a more recent driver on the iBook might at least allow me 
to choose the print resolution.



Merv

Cups has some drivers for OKIpage

One of those may give you the choices you are looking for

The Cups drivers are available in 10.5.6and if they are not 
supplied in Tiger


you should be able to find and download what you need from here : -



Bob




Hope springs eternal.  Thanks Bob, I'll check it out.
Merv
--
"Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must 
also believe in order to see."


-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

Re: iMovie & Stabilization

[Greg Bell]

Hi,

My two cents worth…

You could build one of these for US$14 and remove the stability  
problem at it's source.


http://steadycam.org/

Regards

Greg

On 15/05/2009, at 11:09 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:



On 15/05/2009, at 10:06 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote:

Is it my ageing iMac G5  running 10.5.7 any iLife 09 or could it  
be something else when it takes 2 hours to smooth a 3.5 minute  
video clip and 7 hours for an 11 minute one?


Hi Adrian,

Yes, your ageing iMac could have a bearing on the time it is taking  
for the Stabilization in iMovie 8.
Make sure you have no other applications open, don't try to do  
anything else on your iMac, just let iMovie do it's stabilization.


Stabilization works by analyzing every single frame in a clip,  
recognising the changes in both camera position (movement up, down,  
left, or right) and camera rotation. Once it figures that bit out,  
it knows how to slide and rotate your clips to iron out the shakes.


Unfortunately, this sort of analysis takes a very long time—roughly  
ten minutes for every minute of video (more or less depending on  
your Mac’s speed). Also I have read that the better your Graphics  
Card is makes a difference in speed of using the stabilization.


I normally set Movie to do the analyzing & Stabilizing of my video  
at night while I have dinner, open a bottle of red, and watch my  
EyeTV recorded shows ;-)

I find Stabilization is well worth the wait though.

Cheers,
Ronni
-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 



-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

For sale

[Andrew Symington]

Hi everyone,

I have two ADC plastic/translucent Studio Displays I wish to sell.   
Both are in perfect condition (no dead pixels etc) and are just taking  
up shelf space in the spare room (much to my wife's chagrin).


17" ADC Studio Display - $300.00
23" ADC Studio Display - $700.00

Please email me direct if you are interested.

Thanks

Andrew

-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

Re: Printer driver upgrade

[Robert Howells]

On 15/05/2009, at 5:54 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:




I am running OSX 10.4.11 on an iBook.
Connected to the iBook is an OKIPAGE 8 printer which is functioning.
In System Profiler it says the printer driver is 1.1.0


Which model  of   OKIPAGE 8  ?


It is an LED USB Laser printer circa 2000.



Presumably it is connected by USB ! ?

Why are you looking for a new driver  ?  ( You said it is  
functioning ! ? )


The printer is plugged into my wife's iBook which is running on OSX  
10.4.11 and I share the use of it on my intel iMac running OSX  
11.5.7.  I can print from my iMac but I can't access the functions  
of the printer. I thought a more recent driver on the iBook might at  
least allow me to choose the print resolution.



Last night I downloaded version 8.4 for OSX 10.2 and above.



Do you know from what ISP site ?


http://www.okidata.com/mkt/html/nf/Drivers.html



So I looked at that site but so far did not find your version 8.4  
shown  did see the 1.1.0









I ran the installer then went to System Preferences - Print & Fax  
- Selected the OKIPAGE from the list - clicked on + but could not  
find a way of getting to the new driver.

Another path was not to click on + but Printer Setup.



You ran the installer on which Mac?

If you are trying to install on the intel iMac , during the Instal  
process it may help

if you had the printer plugged directly into that iMac  !


There are 3 places to look to see where and whether the driver was  
loaded


Hard drive - Library - Printers

Hard drive - System - Library - Printers

Your user - Library - Printers

The list of names I have includes a bundle of names but not a sight of  
Okidata
so I do not know at this time whether the installer can create a  
folder for that name
or what it does with the driver if it needs that folder but cannot  
find it .


more later

Bob











-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

Re: An AppleScript question

[Shay Telfer]

On 15/05/2009 6:35 PM, Kevin Warner wrote:

 tell application "uTorrent"
 activate
 end tell

 tell application "iTunes"
 activate
 end tell

 and

 tell application "uTorrent"
 quit
 end tell

 tell application "iTunes"
 quit
 end tell

 What am I doing wrong?

 Any help will be gratefully received.


At a guess, the computer's busy doing stuff (torrenting and iTuning), 
and the Apple Events are timing out so that Applescript isn't getting 
a response in its require time period.


Perhaps

with timeout of 600 seconds
tell application "uTorrent" to quit
end timeout

or alternatively

ignoring application responses
tell application "uTorrent" to quit
end ignoring

We have a couple of scripts triggered by iCal to start iTunes that 
seem to fail regularly too... Sigh. Will have to try this with them.


Have fun,
Shay

--
=== Shay  Telfer 
 Perth, Western Australia   Technomancer  The love of liberty is the love
 Opinions for hire  [POQ] of others; the love of power is
 http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt

-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

An AppleScript question

[Kevin Warner]

Hi Everyone,

I have an iMac with 2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo,  4 GB RAM, 650 GB Hard  
drive, running OS X 10.5.7.


I'm new to AppleScript and have a couple of simple scripts attached to  
iCal events. The scripts activate uTorrent and iTunes at 2am (which  
works fine) and then should quit both applications at 12noon. When the  
quit application scripts are run, I get a dialog from OS X saying that  
a script did not end properly. The scripts are:


tell application "uTorrent"
activate
end tell

tell application "iTunes"
activate
end tell

and

tell application "uTorrent"
quit
end tell

tell application "iTunes"
quit
end tell

What am I doing wrong?

Any help will be gratefully received.

Kevin

-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

Re:

[Ronda Brown]

Hi Ken,

I notice you're asking the same question again about iCal crashing,  
which you've had problems with before.

We went through this same problem with you back in September.
If you search the WAMUG Archives, your email Subject was: I Cal -  
posted 17 September 2008.


I also notice below in your reply to Peter, you mention you don't know  
how to create another account on the computer,
Yet when you had this same problem with iCal before, and I mentioned  
you create another User Account and see if iCal works, you said you  
did and it didn't work… Refer to my reply to WAMUG Subject Re: I  
Cal...Still... dated 6 October.  Scroll down to where you answer my  
question


Have you tried if iCal will open in another User Account on your   
Computer?


and you said



Yes, no go.


If you read through the whole WAMUG thread you will see we eventually  
got it ... 'sort of fixed' ..


Ken, looking back at the history of your questions - iCal, iMovie  
problems - and then you mention "other things not working right".
I would suggest you are better off NOT trying to keep "band aid fixing  
things", but best to tackle the underlying problem.
Perhaps getting your machine looked at, or rebuild, would be the  
better option.
You are just going to keep having these problems until you have your  
system sorted out.

Something has "corrupted" the system and causing problems.

I would recommend you have an Apple Technician look at your computer.

Cheers,
Ronni


On 15/05/2009, at 4:28 PM, Ken Jackson wrote:

Thanks Peter, nothing worked, I'm not sure about about how you go  
about running it in another account.


Anyone else had I Cal just quit on them?

thanks ,

Ken


On 14/05/2009, at 8:07 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:



On 13/05/2009, at 2:05 PM, Ken Jackson wrote:


Hi folks,
my I Cal quits on opening, running 10.4.11 on a G5.
Used to work fine.

Any quick fixes to this?



The first step is always to remove the application's references and  
then relaunch the app. In the case of iCal the files are


com.apple.iCal.alarmsCache.plist
com.apple.iCal.AlarmScheduler.plist
com.apple.iCal.helper.plist

They are found in ~/Library/Preferences (the "~" refers to your  
Home Folder). What approach you take with multiple .plist files is  
open to debate. Since only one of the files is likely to be the  
culprit, you can take one of three courses of action:


1. Remove all three at once (just putting them on the desktop is  
sufficient at this stage) and relaunch iCal. It should start clean,  
but you may find that some settings have changed, such as calendar  
colours, alarms, etc. If these are important to you, try adding  
them back (copying) one by one, quitting and relaunching iCal each  
time until the application fails to launch.


2. Remove them one by one, quitting and relaunching iCal each time

3. If the program launches and everything seems fine, do nothing more

If the above measures do not fix the problem, make sure the  
application itself is OK by running it in a different account, but  
that leads into a whole ball game.


--

Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913

Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.



-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

Re: Printer driver upgrade

[Mervyn & Giuliana Bond]

James
On the pull down menu for model the list did not contain 
okidata/okipage, but did have a USB option.  Selecting that still 
gave me no window to select the driver.  I am wondering where the 
"successful" installation of the new driver went to!!

Will try a search.
Merv


go to sys pref/ printer/fax
click the + to get the printer browser
thenhold option & click on more printers
where appletalk is showing pull down to advanced
for printer model pull to your okidata/okipage
an additional window should show available drivers
select your driver & add
good luck James


On 15/05/2009, at 13:07, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:


I am running OSX 10.4.11 on an iBook.
Connected to the iBook is an OKIPAGE 8 printer which is functioning.
In System Profiler it says the printer driver is 1.1.0
Last night I downloaded version 8.4 for OSX 10.2 and above.
I ran the installer then went to System Preferences - Print & Fax - 
Selected the OKIPAGE from the list - clicked on + but could not 
find a way of getting to the new driver.
Another path was not to click on + but Printer Setup.  The pull 
down menu was only active for Name and Location but nothing in the 
window could be changed.

Am I on the wrong track?
Help please.
Merv

--
"Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must 
also believe in order to see."


-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 


SAD Technic
Video Productions, Electronic repairs
U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl
Bayswater WA 6053
+618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132
http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas
skype: barleeway

The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck
is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners


-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 



--
"Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must 
also believe in order to see."


-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

Re: Printer driver upgrade

[Mervyn & Giuliana Bond]

Bob
Thank you for responding given your domestic circumstances.  I hope 
the hip procedure was a success and that care during convalescence 
gives a 100% result.



On 15/05/2009, at 1:07 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:


I am running OSX 10.4.11 on an iBook.
Connected to the iBook is an OKIPAGE 8 printer which is functioning.
In System Profiler it says the printer driver is 1.1.0


Which model  of   OKIPAGE 8  ?


It is an LED USB Laser printer circa 2000.



Presumably it is connected by USB ! ?

Why are you looking for a new driver  ?  ( You said it is functioning ! ? )


The printer is plugged into my wife's iBook which is running on OSX 
10.4.11 and I share the use of it on my intel iMac running OSX 
11.5.7.  I can print from my iMac but I can't access the functions of 
the printer. I thought a more recent driver on the iBook might at 
least allow me to choose the print resolution.



Last night I downloaded version 8.4 for OSX 10.2 and above.



Do you know from what ISP site ?


http://www.okidata.com/mkt/html/nf/Drivers.html




I ran the installer then went to System Preferences - Print & Fax - 
Selected the OKIPAGE from the list - clicked on + but could not 
find a way of getting to the new driver.

Another path was not to click on + but Printer Setup.



I am not running tiger at the moment but i seem to remember that 
under some circumstances
you need to hold down the option key to get to the Advanced part of 
the drop down menu

 to get at some drivers under some circumstances  .

I can check that out later tonight if you still need to know .. I am 
off to see wife in hospital now.

She has had a new hip joint to fix up that problem from a fall last january


Bob


The pull down menu was only active for Name and Location but 
nothing in the window could be changed.

Am I on the wrong track?
Help please.
Merv


Please don't spend too much time on this item, but thank you for your efforts.
Merv
--
"Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must 
also believe in order to see."


-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

Re:

[Ken Jackson]

Thanks Peter, nothing worked, I'm not sure about about how you go  
about running it in another account.


Anyone else had I Cal just quit on them?

thanks ,

Ken





On 14/05/2009, at 8:07 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:



On 13/05/2009, at 2:05 PM, Ken Jackson wrote:


Hi folks,
my I Cal quits on opening, running 10.4.11 on a G5.
Used to work fine.

Any quick fixes to this?



The first step is always to remove the application's references and  
then relaunch the app. In the case of iCal the files are


com.apple.iCal.alarmsCache.plist
com.apple.iCal.AlarmScheduler.plist
com.apple.iCal.helper.plist

They are found in ~/Library/Preferences (the "~" refers to your  
Home Folder). What approach you take with multiple .plist files is  
open to debate. Since only one of the files is likely to be the  
culprit, you can take one of three courses of action:


1. Remove all three at once (just putting them on the desktop is  
sufficient at this stage) and relaunch iCal. It should start clean,  
but you may find that some settings have changed, such as calendar  
colours, alarms, etc. If these are important to you, try adding  
them back (copying) one by one, quitting and relaunching iCal each  
time until the application fails to launch.


2. Remove them one by one, quitting and relaunching iCal each time

3. If the program launches and everything seems fine, do nothing more

If the above measures do not fix the problem, make sure the  
application itself is OK by running it in a different account, but  
that leads into a whole ball game.


--

Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913

Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.





-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 



-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe - 

OT Mobile phone numbers

[Peter Curtis]

Hi
Does anyone know if there is any listing of mobile telephone numbers  
anywhere?

Regards
Peter


-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Unsubscribe -