On 10/2/06 8:21 AM, "Gene Wieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would it be possible to create a script in Entourage that would quit > the app after a certain amount of time of inactivity? A user on my > computer never quits any applications when he's finished; rather than > seeing the Mac desktop when I'm about to begin work, I usually see > Entourage open to his last email--not serious but annoying. I know > nothing about scripting, therefore my query. Thanks, Gene No. There's no way gauging that "nothing has happened", or even "something generic has happened" by AppleScript, no way of monitoring events. (Actually, I suspect that his "Send & Receive All" schedule regularly checks for mail, so even if there were a way, which there isn't, you would never get to a point that "nothing has happened' since there would always be that schedule running.) Do you not know about "Fast User Switching" on the Mac? Each of you on the computer ought to have your own user "account". Then in System Preferences/Accounts. whoever is the admin user can "click lock to make changes", then click Login Options, and "Enable fast user switching". (You can either make sure that everyone needs to log in with a password, or not, as you prefer. You can have a password and he can omit one, for that matter, as you like.) Now when you get to the computer, you do not have to quit all his apps for him. All you have to do is go to the top right area of the menu bar, click on his name, select your own, and the screen "rotates" to your own nice clean desktop. When you finish, either just switch to Login Window or log out fully, whichever you prefer. Then he can (needs to) enter his password to get back to his own desktop, which he can keep as messy as he wishes, with Entourage and any other apps open, without bothering anyone. He can even set his own password to (blank) - i.e. no password, if he wishes. So can you. That makes switching to his (and/or your) user desktop faster, if there's no privacy concern. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
