minimal Applescript awareness for standalones

[Rodney Tamblyn]

Title: minimal Applescript awareness for standalones

Feature request:

 I think MC standalones should be smart enough to respond correctly to an Applescript activate command.

it would be nice if stand alone MC applications on the Mac platform had minimal Applescript awareness (ie support for the standard suite).  For example, a MC standalone application should be able to respond to a script along the lines of:

tell application "myMCapp"

  activate

end tell

Other usefuls: print, quit etc

A nice addition might be:

doHandler <handler>,{param list}

... which would attempt to execute a handler of the specified name, passing the indicated parameters and returning in the result any result data.

As things are at present, if I execute:

tell application "myMCapp"

                activate

end tell

... I  get an error back "Some parameter missing for activate"

Of course I can do:

tell application "myMCapp"

        try
             activate

        end try

end tell

... which ignores the error message. But the application still activates in the background.  Which is not what we want.

Any ideas or suggestions?  Perhaps I could script the Finder to properly activate my MC application instead.

Rodney

 

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Rodney Tamblyn
Educational Media group
Higher Education Development Centre, 75 Union Place
University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
ph +64 3 479 7580 Fax +64 3 479 8362