Applescript

using friends have not enabled the AppleScript menu item and don't know what I'm talking about. ...

The only idea I have is to have AppleScript simulate the keystrokes you have set to switch spaces, with the "keystroke" command of System Events. ...

Well, I haven't been able to find any way to use AppleScript to tell Spaces to switch the space that is shown in the desktop. There is no dictionary for Spaces nor for Expose. ...

Now, I'll do some investigation to see if there's a way to use AppleScript commands to tell Spaces or maybe Finder that I want to switch the view to another Spaces window. ...

If there's a way to do it with AppleScript (if there is, I'd love to know about it), you can execute it from a shell script using the osascript command. Here's an example of executing a simple AppleScript from a shell: osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" return the name of window 1 end tell'

If there's no way to do this from within a shell script, I guess I could rewrite the whole thing as an AppleScript program, or just abandon this idea altogether. It's not a critical task, just a "nice to have" kind of thing. ...

What is wrong with using AppleScript or Automator script? ...

I'm not sure how to do it in straight C, but you can do it via AppleScript like this:tell application "Finder" set the locked of file "Mac HD:path:to:file" to false end tellOr if you want to use Unix-style paths instead of HFS-style paths, like this:tell application "Finder" set the locked of file (posix file "/path/to/file") to false end tell You can also use the...

and save it as an application call it "Automatic email getter with dial up" or something along that line. This way the user and just launch the one appleScript application that will launch the modem connection first then immediately launch the email program upon successful connection. ...

I just discovered it a few months ago and have been using it like crazy. At first, I didn't want to register (I thought it a little overpriced), so I wrote a little AppleScript that replicates the "resize window" function of MercuryMover (to reside windows to a certain width/height and position), but it doesn't work on all applications for some reason, whereas MercuryMover...