Applescript:

do shell script "osascript -e 'say \"Hello\"'"

There is no "correct" way, I think. You select what you're comfortable with, or what is fastest.
A matter of style, so to speak.
That's assuming the end result is the same for each command - which may not be the case.
I never had need to figure that out.

Last edited by alastor933 (2012-12-07 06:53:43 am)

Applescript:

tell application "testing" to run

Makes it come to the foreground.

Applescript:

tell application "testing" to launch

Starts it up in the background, ready to take requests.

You can also tell it to open in the background with the open -g command, if you have set CFBundleSignature in the plist.file of your applet. You can also open it directly with a open -a command within a do shell script.

Type man open in a Terminal window.

I wrote:

Applescript:

Open this Scriplet in your Editor:
tell application "testing" to launch

Starts it up in the background, ready to take requests.

I really meant that it wasn't full launched, but ready to run. It is per definition, started up, it just hasn't run yet.

Activate, I think, is like an implicit run.

And the fun part, is that if you have handlers indside your app, then you can call those within a tell block of the app, and pass it messages.

Last edited by McUsrII (2012-12-07 07:42:16 am)