How to explicitly start the classic version of an application?

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hi,

I am currently scripting Adobe Photoshop 7 on Mac OS X 10.4 to manipulate images to be used in magazines.

Being a Carbon application Photoshop 7 can run both in Classic and Mac OS X. Now I explicitly need to address/activate the Classic version of the application, not the Mac OS X version.

Is there a possibility to do this?

Thanks so much for your help in advance!

Best regards,

Martin

P.S.: Yes, I already told my colleagues to upgrade to a Classic-less workflow…

#2

10.4…

Hmmmm…
How about running Classic from Apple. The software that lets your Mac boot in a Classic Environment. Just like OS 9.

(Mac OS X.5 does not have Classic)

#3

Hi, Martin.

You can activate a specific version of an app by telling the Finder to open the relevant application file. Once the app’s up and running (you may have to use a delay while it starts up), it should respond to the commands from your script ” provided that the other version isn’t open at the same time. I don’t recall that there is a sure-fire way to distinguish between two versions when they’re both open, but I’ve a vague idea that changing the name of one of them might work.

#4

Hey Martin,

Hope the family is doing well!

I had the same issue when scripting Quark with versions 6.5 and 7 on the same machine. I used a full path to the version I wanted to script. You might give it a try.

Here is an example targeting Mail using full path.

tell application "HD:Applications:Mail.app"
end tell

Regards,

Craig

#5

Hi,

Thanks for your answers!

After encountering a lot of problems with using the Classic environment in our workflow, we finally convinced the management to move the whole process to Mac OS X only :smiley: Nevertheless the described methods worked out great :wink:

Best regards from Berlin,

Martin

P.S.: Family life is great, my daughter currently begins to speak and that is just so much fun! Wuff wuff! Daddy, mommy! Mooooooo! Dada! :lol: