On 1 May 2008, at 22:28, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
Yes, you have a space after Events and before the quote so you are
trying to tell app "System Events ", not "System Events".
Change the second double ampersand to a single and it all works fine.
THANK you! So it was just a typo...
Ian
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On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Ian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 proc
Yes, I think I'll have to redo it using shell("top -l 1 -o +command")
instead.
Ian
On 1 May 2008, at 12:53, Mark Smith wrote:
I just ran that bit of Applescript, and got the 'where is system
events' dialog - I'm on 10.4.11. (intel mac).
I guess the 'ps' or 'top' commands would work.
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I just ran that bit of Applescript, and got the 'where is system
events' dialog - I'm on 10.4.11. (intel mac).
I guess the 'ps' or 'top' commands would work.
Best,
Mark
On 1 May 2008, at 12:37, Ian Wood wrote:
On 1 May 2008, at 12:29, Jim Sims wrote:
It requires 10.3 I think, so maybe tho
On 1 May 2008, at 12:29, Jim Sims wrote:
It requires 10.3 I think, so maybe those people are using something
under 10.3
If they're running 10.3 or below they can't run Aperture, so I doubt
that that's the problem. :-(
After a bit more digging this may be related to a problem when using
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 app
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
