[Ham-Mac] Help with filename for AppleScript Autostart

[Pete Golian]

Your welcome.  I’m glad it works.

Pete
KB3WTP


> On Jan 29, 2016, at 5:59 PM, Richard Kriss <aa5vu at att.net> wrote:
> 
> I want to extend a big THANK YOU to Pete, KB3WTB, for a super rewrite of the OS X AppleScript to autostart both fldigi and  flrig. The script works perfect and I no longer have to worry about version number changes in fldigi or flrig.
> 
> TNX ANG to Pete KB3WTB
> 
> 73 Dick AA5VU
> 
> 
>> On Jan 29, 2016, at 3:31 PM, Pete Golian <pjgolian at gmail.com <mailto:pjgolian at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> If the previous script works for you… here is a cleaner version of the script.  Basically, I moved the redundant parts of the script into subroutine called findAndStartApp.  The first two lines call that method:  once for fldigi and another for flrig.
>> 
>> All the lines below go into just one applescript file:
> 
> findAndStartApp("fldigi")
> findAndStartApp("flrig")
> 
> on findAndStartApp(appName)
> 	-- assume apps are in the Applications Folder
> 	set thePath to path to applications folder
> 	tell application "System Events"
> 		set filelist to every file of thePath whose name starts with appName
> 		if filelist is not {} then
> 			-- if there are multiple apps found, use the last one in the list
> 			set theapp to last item of filelist
> 			do shell script "open -a " & name of theapp
> 		else
> 			-- no files found
> 		end if
> 	end tell
> end findAndStartApp