tell application "Mail" to launch in ASOC

Scripting Forums AppleScriptObjC and Xcode
#1

This doesn’t appear to do anything, yet in AppleScript Editor, it launches Mail. I’d appreciate an explanation as to what I’m missing, or at least a pointer to where I can read about it. I haven’t been able to find anything about it through searching.

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More detail: it does appear to work at some point, but not in awakeFromNib().

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And it appears to work in on applicationWillFinishLaunching_(aNotification). So that’ll work for me. Nevermind! :slight_smile:

Thanks!
Derek

#2

to let it work in any situation you can use NSTask or do shell script and use open -b com.apple.Mail. Just like your code it would startup if mail is not running, otherwise it makes it the front most application.

#3

Thanks for the tip, DJ Bazzie Wazzie!