See below. OSX 10.2.2
I. Failure to see inside package.
I tested the following:
answer file "Search for an application that is a package"
put it
/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 7/Adobe Photoshop 7.0/
is returned.
indicating a failure to "see" inside the package... it is not possible from inside the dialog box to cntrl-select a file inside a package. Leaving it as a directory, one cannot use the path to launch a file.
launch "some.jpg" with "/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 7/Adobe Photoshop 7.0/"
will not work.
2. Doing as Ken says. control clicked on the package. The actual application file appears, ais the same name, appending this to the path one gets:
/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 7/Adobe Photoshop 7.0/Adobe Photoshop 7.0
launch "some.jpg" with "/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 7/Adobe Photoshop 7.0/Adobe Photoshop 7.0"
YES! this does work. Subsequent attempts to open a file with Photoshop already open do not work (as documented) will have to use applescript.
3.
Close process "/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 7/Adobe Photoshop 7.0/Adobe Photoshop 7.0"
Does nothing if Photoshop is open. Openprocesses still returns path to PS.
4. kill process "/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 7/Adobe Photoshop 7.0/Adobe Photoshop 7.0" returns "Process did not die" if Photoshop is still open.
5. Quit Photoshop:
--Openprocesses() still returns the path.
--Close process doesn't do anything. Launch command will not work even though Photoshop has been quit.
--Kill process "/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 7/Adobe Photoshop 7.0/Adobe Photoshop 7.0" returns "Process did not die"
BUT! after running the kill process on the application that was already quit... the Launch command does in fact boot Photoshop now... even though the kill command didn't think it had killed the process.
??? Some engine anomalies there... but
Solutions: on OSX if helper app is open, use applescript to launch the file.
If the helper app was previously opened by Rev, but subsequently quit then
use a kill command before trying to use it again in the same session.
global gCurrentFolder
on menuPick which
switch which
case "Photoshop"
put (fld "PhotoshopLoc" of stack "prefs") into tAppPath
kill process tAppPath
break
case "ImageReady"
put (fld "ImageReadyLoc" of stack "prefs") into tAppPath
kill process tAppPath
break
case "Illustrator"
put (fld "IllustratorLoc" of stack "prefs") into tAppPath
kill process tAppPath
break
case "BBEdit" ## check on some text file...captions etc.
put (fld "BBeditLoc" of stack "prefs") into tAppPath
kill process tAppPath
break
end switch
launch (gCurrentFolder& fld "currentImage") with tAppPath
end menuPick
On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 08:48 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
Sannyasin,The problem (I think) is that Rev thinks that it "owns" the process, andProblems with Launch command: Bug: 1) Rev will not "forget' that the application is no longer running.a) set an application path to BBEdit in a preference field. b) Launch a file using launch "some/File/path" with "/Applications/BBedit 6.5/BBEdit 6.5 First time (BBedit is not open) the file is opened... as expected. Quit BBEdit... use the launch button again.. .this time the file is not launched... if I quit Rev and re-boot, it is launched.
therefore since you didn't quit it *from* Rev, it still thinks it's open.
Try checking the "openProcesses' and see if you have a process listed there
after you launch. If you do, you should 'kill' the process and see if it
will work again.
Not a bug, but a "how to?"
2) The documentation clearly states that if the application is already
open then "launch" will do nothing... OK, so, then, how does one open a
file in an already running application? Of course I can use
applescript... but would rather stay in xTalk.
Sorry; I think you have to use AppleScript until this is resolved.No, that's not strange at all under OS X. Technically applications ARE3) this is totally obscure problem with Adobe products... anyone know about this? Launch "somepath/some.jpg" with "/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 7.0/Adobe Photoshop 7.0 will not work... and, what is even stranger, if you do answer file "Find your copy of Photoshop" put it and locate the application, Rev returns: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop 7.0/Adobe Photoshop 7.0/ with a "/" at the end, even though it appears that you are pointing to the Adobe photoshop file and not a folder??
folders (actually "packages"); if you control-click on them and choose "Show
Package Contents" you can see what is inside - including the REAL
application. You might try including the trailing "/" after the path name to
the app and see if it launches properly.
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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