Philippe OLLIVIER

As it took me a lot of time to find how to send valid messages from 

max to itunes via applescript and the shell, i want to share the 

result of my work. Unfortunately, i can't send messages to an app 

whose name contains more than one word like "DVD Player". I would be 

interested if someone can tell me how to do it.

As it took me a lot of time to find how to send valid messages from  
max to itunes via applescript and the shell, i want to share the  
result of my work. Unfortunately, i can't send messages to an app  
whose name contains more than one word like "DVD Player". I would be  
interested if someone can tell me how to do it.

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You could rename "DVD player" to "DVD_Player"

On 22-janv.-06, at 12:12, Jakob Riis wrote:

> You could rename "DVD player" to "DVD_Player"

I'm afraid this should be avoided... This solution makes your patch not 

portable, and I don't know how OSX will be able to update DVD Player.

I recently didn't understand why, in reaktor's contextual menus, I 

couldn't find some items (empty macro for instance) I found on other 

machines until I understood it was because I changed Reaktor's folder 

Obvious pathes issues, as you could also encounter with Max, btw.

Using a backslash before the space works.

-> osascript -e 'tell application "DVDPlayer player" to open'

I'm afraid this should be avoided... This solution makes your patch not 
portable, and I don't know how OSX will be able to update DVD Player.

I recently didn't understand why, in reaktor's contextual menus, I 
couldn't  find some items (empty macro for instance) I found on other 
machines until I understood it was because I changed Reaktor's folder 
name from "Reaktor5" to "Reaktor5.1".
Obvious pathes issues, as you could also encounter with Max, btw.

This is very interesting. I see that you can open the system preferences this way. Now what i'd like to know is how does one go about finding the right scripts to open (for example) the energy saver panel and set the processor to high performance - that would be quite handy...

As i was searching for info on scripting i found Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes which might be handy for some...

Thanks for your work. It seems to work nicely!

Check into system events apple scripting. None of the preference 

panes are currently very scriptable, so the system events library 

lets you simulate actually clicking on tabs and buttons, entering 

Honestly, I'd assume there is a way to access this functionality 

through the more robust "defaults" tool (the supported way of 

Check into system events apple scripting.  None of the preference  
panes are currently very scriptable, so the system events library  
lets you simulate actually clicking on tabs and buttons, entering  
text into text fields, etc.
That's probably your best bet.

Honestly, I'd assume there is a way to access this functionality  
through the more robust "defaults" tool (the supported way of  
affecting preferences via the shell).
man defaults for more info.

Quote: Mark Pauley wrote on Sun, 22 January 2006 14:47

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> Honestly, I'd assume there is a way to access this functionality 

> through the more robust "defaults" tool (the supported way of 

this is a bit of pain (though perfectly logical)

[i]Note: Since applications do access the defaults system while they're run-

ning, you shouldn't modify the defaults of a running application. If you

change a default in a domain that belongs to a running application, the

application won't see the change and might even overwrite the default.[/i]

Quote: Mark Pauley wrote on Sun, 22 January 2006 14:47
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> Honestly, I'd assume there is a way to access this functionality  
> through the more robust "defaults" tool (the supported way of  
> affecting preferences via the shell).
> man defaults for more info.

[i]Note: Since applications do access the defaults system while they're run-
     ning, you shouldn't modify the defaults of a running application. If you
     change a default in a domain that belongs to a running application, the
     application won't see the change and might even overwrite the default.[/i]


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