In search of AppleScript or Cocoa Developer

nebagakidnebagakid
Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
Hi all. I am looking for either an AppleScript or a Cocoa developer.



I have a great idea for a program, i have the GUI, yet the only problem is that I am not that good at programming. I would love it if someone would want to be my partner for this project.



The practility for this app is great. It will periodically check to see if an App is up and if it is not, turn it on. The need for this is such if you are not near your server or your computer and you need a certain app on all the time, it will keep it up.

This is like that USB thing you plug in but nothing like that. Hopefully this program would not run down.



The other options are a daemon sorta thing or a prefernce pane.



Any takeres?

<img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> :cool:

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 7
    mithrasmithras Posts: 165member
    [code]

    #!/bin/sh

    while [ 1 ]

    do

    /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit

    done

    </pre><hr></blockquote>



    save this as a file, let's say, 'keepup'

    then, make it executable:

    chmod a+x keepup



    And run it:

    ./keepup



    Tada!



    [ 05-11-2002: Message edited by: Mithras ]</p>
  • Reply 2 of 7
    macgpmacgp Posts: 88member
    [code]

    #!/bin/sh

    while [ 1 ]

    do

    /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit

    done

    </pre><hr></blockquote>



    save this as a file, let's say, 'keepup'

    then, make it executable:

    chmod a+x keepup



    And run it:

    ./keepup



    Tada!



    [ 05-11-2002: Message edited by: Mithras ][/qb]&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;



    Haha, that works, but you have to keep the terminal open the whole time. Once you close it. Its done



    [ 05-12-2002: Message edited by: MacGP ]</p>
  • Reply 3 of 7
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    is there any way to translate that into a daemon or an application?
  • Reply 4 of 7
    roborobo Posts: 469member
    BTW - how do you tell the terminal to open the app in a particular directory.. ie. i want to use this to open F@H, but it has to be opened in it's own directory otherwise it doesn't know it's settings etc..





    Thanks,



    robo
  • Reply 5 of 7
    keyboardf12keyboardf12 Posts: 1,379member
    quitling does this too.



    check out versiontracker. they have all their controls in a system pref pane.
  • Reply 6 of 7
    hekalhekal Posts: 117member
    [quote]Originally posted by MacGP:

    <strong>[code]

    #!/bin/sh

    while [ 1 ]

    do

    /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit

    done

    </pre><hr></blockquote>



    save this as a file, let's say, 'keepup'

    then, make it executable:

    chmod a+x keepup



    And run it:

    ./keepup



    Tada!



    [ 05-11-2002: Message edited by: Mithras ]</strong>&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;



    Haha, that works, but you have to keep the terminal open the whole time. Once you close it. Its done



    [ 05-12-2002: Message edited by: MacGP ][/QB]<hr></blockquote>



    No. ./keepup &
  • Reply 7 of 7
    mithrasmithras Posts: 165member
    [quote]Originally posted by robo:

    <strong>BTW - how do you tell the terminal to open the app in a particular directory.. ie. i want to use this to open F@H, but it has to be opened in it's own directory otherwise it doesn't know it's settings etc..



    Thanks,



    robo</strong><hr></blockquote>



    robo: just add a 'cd' line to change directory:



    #!/bin/sh

    cd /path/to/F@H

    while true

    do

    FoldingAtHomeCommand

    done



    also, if you want to make it spiffier,

    (1) run it with a & on the end, as hekal noted, to run in the background.

    (2) save it with a .command extension on the name so that you can double-click it from the finder

    (3) or, make a StartupItem for it. (Look at an example file; they are pretty simple)

    (4) or, make a little wrapper file for this one:

    [code]

    #!/bin/sh

    /path/to/keepup &

    </pre><hr></blockquote>

    do the chmod a+x to this one. Save it in ~/Scripts

    Then, download <a href="http://www.apple.com/applescript/macosx"; target="_blank">ScriptMenu</a>, and you can run your keep-up script with a click in the menubar.



    If you want to kill the keepup, you'd have to run ps uxw (or ps auxw if you ran it from startup) and find its process id. then type kill (pid) where (pid) is that number.



    or, you can add this line after the #!/bin/sh:

    [code]

    echo $$ &gt; ~/keepup.pid

    </pre><hr></blockquote>

    which copies its process id to a file in your home directory. Then, if you want to kill the keepup script, you just type

    kill `cat ~/keepup.pid` in the Terminal.



    hope that helps! have fun!
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