Applescript

You can tie these together. For instance, an AppleScript can use "do script" to call a bash or tcsh script, while a bash or tcsh script might use the osascript command to run an AppleScript. ...

I've decided to learn a scripting language now, and I'm trying to decide what is the best. I'm not interested in AppleScript, I was looking at Perl. I hear there are some better ones around than perl though, so I want a few extra opinions first. Fire away :p

AppleScript can now have GUIs, though I haven't used AppleScript for a long time now. ...

Let's get more specific: what exactly do you want to do? But that I mean, why do you want to run commands from any application, what kinds of commands do you want to run? They must be non-interactive commands if you don't want any windows open, right ? The Terminal is the place to run commands, and it only opens one window. As for AppleScript, running any shell script is...

keep all your data on the mounted image. You'd still have to take care of automatically unmounting the image on logout, but that should be feasible with a small applescript or similar. ...

plain and simple. You can execute Applescript commands from C. ...

There are programs like Synergy and Aquisition that do this, although I have the feeling Aquisition uses applescript as well. ...

Au contraire mon frair (said in a Bart Simpson voice): http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/mac.simpsons@mm.html There are infact quite a few stupid applescript viruses, and also word/excel macro virus's that can effect macs. But not to the extent that they effect windows users. Brian

i've created an applescript that opens toast, mounts the image and then quits toast automatically, so u have only to click once. ...

We need a C++ MAC developer (or two) who is familiar with the following: - XCode - C++ - MPEG2 - Firewire Protocol - QuickTime - Applescript - Final Cut Pro