I am trying to quit an application and having no luck. I used the standard tell application “app_name” quit. The problem is in this application when you quit, it comes up with a confirm “Do you really want to quit” window that you have to click “OK” or “Cancel”.
I did try using the GUI scripting Click “OK” of window “Confirm” this appeared to click the OK button, but did not do anything.
Any thoughts?
Perhaps you could/should use the ‘killall’ shell command instead.
do shell script "killall "Microsoft Word""
Check out this post. There’s more info available if you search this site for “killall”.
j
The problem is that it is a server database application that needs to go through its shutdown process. Thanks though. Any other ideas?
Instead of using UI scripting to click, have you tried sending a return character to the program? If the confirmation box has ‘OK’ as the default answer, then a return should do it. It would look something like:
tell application “System Events”
tell process “your_database_app”
keystroke return
end tell
end tell
Andy
p.s IIRC the application you are sending the keystroke to needs to be frontmost. You may need to:
set frontmost to true
just before the keystroke.