Basically I’ve been fiddling around with Applescript, trying to get it to automate some of the minor and annoying tasks in my studio. Specifically, I use a program called Vienna Ensemble Pro, and I’m trying to write a script that will a) Quit the program, b) select the option ‘Don’t Save’ in the subsequent window, c) wait two minutes, and then d) shut down the computer.
So far, I can’t get past step B! I’ve been Googling and searching the forum, trying to figure out what I’m doing wrong, but I just can’t seem to figure it out. So believe me when I say that I tried searching and such, but as a last resort I’m presenting my issue here.
Here’s all I have so far:
tell application “Vienna Ensemble Pro”
quit
end tell [something to select ‘Don’t Save’]
delay 120
tell application Finder to shut down
end tell
So as you can see, the part that I’m having trouble with is step b. There are three buttons: “Don’t Save”, “Cancel” and “Save” (the last of which is the blue-highlighted one). I can’t, for the life of me, figure out how to select “Don’t Save”. I tried various permutations of ‘click button 1 of window 1’, but I get various error messages.
Any idea what I’m doing wrong here?
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Operating System: Mac OS X (10.5)
Thanks guys. Unfortunately this isn’t working either. It gives me an AppleScript Error saying ‘Vienna Ensemble Pro got an error: every document doesn’t understand the close message.’ Any other ideas?
First of all: I have no experience with that app.
But try:
tell application "Vienna Ensemble Pro"
set open_docs to (get its every document I
repeat with aDoc in open_docs
tell aDoc to close saving no
end repeat
quit
end tell
tell application "Finder" to shut down
Hopes this helps.
I’t would help us helping you if you could copy what it says about the close command from its dictionary, which
can be found via Library in the AppleScript Editor
When I try to compile that scriplet, it gives me a syntax error: “Expected ‘from’, etc. but found identifier.”
But moreover, when I go to the Library and add the Vienna Ensemble Pro app, I get an error message that says 'Unable to add the application or extension because it is not scriptable."
I suppose that’s my answer? That this simply isn’t going to work?
I’ll come back to you with “shutdown” script tomorrow, it is a tad late.
It is one, which asks you to confirm that you have saved what is to be saved, and if you don’t answer in 10 seconds,
(after a chime), it will kill it anyway. -Just so you have a chance to saving work. But this is totally on your own responsibility.
tell application "Vienna Ensemble Pro"
set open_docs to (get its every document)
repeat with aDoc in open_docs
tell aDoc to close saving no
end repeat
quit
end tell
tell application "Finder" to shut down
Sure, yeah… that sounds good. Does it just kill everything by force quitting, or does it still go through a regular quit routine? Because Vienna Ensemble Pro can take up to a minute to quit, so I need to put some delay in there before the final shut down command.
You may try this, it might however not work if there are unsaved documents. I’m not sure about that. Try it and come back if it doesn’t work, and then state wether there were open documents in it or any other.
(It ignores any unsaved documents in TextEdit). You may as a matter of fact kill every process which have unsaved documents, but you really wouldn’t do that because one time or another that would save your bacon so to speak.
set appName to (quoted form of "Vienna Ensemble Pro")
do shell script "killall " & appName
repeat
delay 5
if not livingProcess(appName) then exit repeat
end repeat
tell application "Finder" to shut down
on livingProcess(qtdProcNameAsText)
set cmd to "echo"
set pipe to "`ps ax | grep \"" & qtdProcNameAsText & "\" | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }' `"
set theRes to do shell script cmd & space & pipe
if theRes is "" then
return false
else
return true
end if
end livingProcess
Is the way that it ‘kills’ the application similar to a Force Quit? I wonder if there’s any chance that it will be somehow bad for the application.
Also, and this is probably the wrong forum for this… but does anyone know if there’s a way to activate this script remotely from another Mac… perhaps using a Terminal script?
