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funny, I was about to ask exactly the same question !

...exepted that I'm on Intel mac : so no shell UB yet, as far as I know.

I tried with aka.shell, but it just says in the max window :

funny, I was about to ask exactly the same question !
...exepted that I'm on Intel mac : so no shell UB yet, as far as I know.
I tried with aka.shell, but it just says in the max window :
"aka.shell: no result"
and... no result.

www.maxobjects.com
http://mathieu.chamagne.free.fr

tell application "MaxMSP"
	activate
end tell

On 30-jun-2007, at 8:59, mathieu.chamagne@gmail.com wrote:

> funny, I was about to ask exactly the same question !

> ...exepted that I'm on Intel mac : so no shell UB yet, as far as I 

> I tried with aka.shell, but it just says in the max window :

the phrase 'tell application "MaxMSP" to activate' is AppleScript

so it will work with tap.applescript from 

another approach is to use a shell script that runs outside of max,

    open "/path/to/your/standalone.app" ;

I use this as a watchdog script, it will open the app if it is 

it hardly takes any CPU cycles as the shell script sleeps most of the 

> funny, I was about to ask exactly the same question !
> ...exepted that I'm on Intel mac : so no shell UB yet, as far as I  
> know.
> I tried with aka.shell, but it just says in the max window :
> "aka.shell: no result"
> and... no result.
>
> any idea ?
> maybe an applescript ?
>
> thanks
>
> Mathieu

the phrase 'tell application "MaxMSP" to activate' is AppleScript
so it will work with tap.applescript from http://www.electrotap.com/ 
taptoolsmax/
which is UB (and highly recommended)

another approach is to use a shell script that runs outside of max,
for example

#!/bin/sh
while true
do
	open "/path/to/your/standalone.app" ;
	sleep 10;
done

I use this as a watchdog script, it will open the app if it is  
closed, and it will put it
in front if it is already open.
it hardly takes any CPU cycles as the shell script sleeps most of the  
time.

maxobjects.com is not quite up-to-date on this count:

jeremy bernstein ported shell to UB and since Max 4.6.3 it works both 

https://cycling74.com/twiki/bin/view/Share/JeremyBernstein

maxobjects.com is not quite up-to-date on this count:
jeremy bernstein ported shell to UB and since Max 4.6.3 it works both  
ways.
available here:
https://cycling74.com/twiki/bin/view/Share/JeremyBernstein

> ...exepted that I'm on Intel mac : so no shell UB yet, as far as I  
> know.


> maxobjects.com is not quite up-to-date on this count:

> jeremy bernstein ported shell to UB and since Max 4.6.3 it works 

> maxobjects.com is not quite up-to-date on this count:
> jeremy bernstein ported shell to UB and since Max 4.6.3 it works  
> both ways.
> available here:
> https://cycling74.com/twiki/bin/view/Share/JeremyBernstein

get max as front app