Well that sort of worked except the do shell script didn't work. the reason I 
know that is because terminal is suposed to open and so is python window as 
well so looks like I"ll have to use the open command. Hopefully I can remember 
how that works! lol!
On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:34 PM, Jon Cohn wrote:

> OK.  I was looking at a different copy of your script.
> 
> You can either use 
> Tell Application  "Foo"
> something to work on 
> end tell
> 
> OR you can 
> Tell application  "Foo" to something to work on
> 
> Note in the second version everything is on one line, and there is  the word 
> to between the tell section and the command that the foo bapplication is 
> going to process.
> 
> So dropping that end tel, or changing the to to a new line will  correct this 
> error.
> 
> Jonathan 
> 
> On Jan 12, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> 
>> Nope. I still got this.
>> 
>> Expected end of line, etc. but found “end tell”.
>> 
>> Here is the revised one with the quotes. it seems to barf after the activate 
>> thing.
>> 
>> tell application "skype" to activate
>> end tell
>> do shell script "./clisk"
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Jon Cohn wrote:
>> 
>>> You are missing quotes around the shell command that you are attempting to 
>>> run.
>>> 
>>> Also this might be a case where you need to use the terminal I am not sure.
>>> 
>>> But it will compile if you use a double quote that is the next  char "
>>> 
>>> The quotes need to surround the words after script.
>>> 
>>> I  often put  all punctuation on while working with AppleScript.
>>> 
>>> Jonathan 
>>> 
>>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>> 
>>>> No I looked. Here is the script. I'm confused as to why the error accured.
>>>> 
>>>> try
>>>> tell application "skype" to activate
>>>> do shell script ./clisk
>>>> end try
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 7:36 AM, Jon Cohn wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> You probably have an extra character in the Try.  I generally interact 
>>>>> with the error message and find the quoted  text of what it found and 
>>>>> then single  character through that.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jon
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