scpt file and want to use a plain text file then you could try the trick of putting a run script command in the applescript. scpt does not cause this behaviour because the is no compiling to be done.īut calling it from a plain text (.txt.sh ) file will so the app will launch. The act of compiling on a tell application will afaik make the app launch.Ĭalling the script from the command line with osascript from a pre-compiled file i.e. I suspect the reason you are getting this is because each time you call the script from the command line with osascript the script is being compiled. I'm not aware of any way to run this script from python without using osascript, other than appscript, which I don't want to use because it's no longer developed/supported/recommended. I've boiled down that undesirable behaviour to the simple test case shown above. So, does anyone have any ideas about how I might fix or route around this? Is it an osascript bug? Or am I missing something about AppleScript's semantics?įor context: I'm trying to write a script (to be embedded/called from some python) which queries open browsers for the URLs of any tabs they have open I've got it all working fine except that it always launches Safari, whether it's open or not. Non-affected apps include: Google Chrome, iTunes, Preview, Mail, Terminal, Address Book, Echofon.Affected apps include: Safari, TextEdit, iPhoto, AppleScript Editor, iTerm.This still always launches Safari, even though tell is inside an if false block after the return statement! (But again, this is fine in AppleScript Editor.)īTW, this behaviour isn't limited to Safari, but it also isn't universal: In fact, here's another, madder, version with similar behaviour: on is_running(appName) So it seems to me like the tell is what's causing Safari to be launched, but it doesn't need to be actually executed, just present in the script.? For a while I wondered if maybe this was just how tell is supposed to work, but since it doesn't work like this in AppleScript Editor, I guess not. If you comment out the tell / end tell lines, it behaves as I'd expect: if Safari is not running, it doesn't launch it, and prints "Not running".
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Is this an osascript bug / known issue? Or is it somehow intended behaviour for reasons I'm missing? Can anyone get it to work as desired? (BTW I'm running OSX 10.7.5 I can't see how to get osascript to report a version number). Note that it works as desired/expected when run within AppleScript Editor. This is not the behaviour I desire or would expect. The problem: when I run this via the osascript command line utility, if Safari is not running, it gets launched and the script reports "Running". Stuff I only want executed if Safari is running goes here. Tell application "System Events" to (name of processes) contains appName Consider the following AppleScript: on is_running(appName)
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