Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> Sascha Ledinsky wrote:
> 
>> Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>>
>>> Mac applications are controlled by more advanced means than simple 
>>> command-lines.
>>
>>
>> ROFL :-)
> 
> 
> Only a clueless person laughs about things they do not know or 
> understand ;-)
> 
>> So, what's the "advanced" procedure to lauch application "B" (plain 
>> mac pov) from application "A" on a macintosh?
> 
> 
> If a Mac user wants to control an application, since 1990 the system and 
> many applications provide a very advanced "event" mechanism that - for 
> users - is hidden behind what is called "AppleScript".  It allows far 
> more than anything a command-line could ever do: Interactive control of 
> an application, even from another system on the other side of the world 
> (if the user allows it).  And that since 1990 and without having to be a 
> computer expert.
> 
> You are still laughing? - No!?! - Ohhhhhhhh.....
> 
> Now, that an obsolete technology like Java comes years later and all it 
> can do is command-line interaction is your problem.  You might consider 
> developing a real Mac application or just stay away from Macs.  If you 
> just create a PC-style Java application and hand it to Mac users, they 
> will ignore it anyway, but you won't understand why due to ignorance.
> 
> Until you change that, continue cleaning all those worms from your 
> Windows PCs and keep chasing for the latest patches on your Linux PCs. I 
> don't need to do either and have more time to get my work done.
> 
>     Thorsten
> 
> PS: Of course on a Mac you can just use the com.apple.cocoa.foundation 
> and implement 
>
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Java/Classes/NSScriptCommand.html>

> to communicate with other Mac applications.

Pardon my ignorance...

Is that system of controlling other processes similar to Windows' 
CreateProcess function?

-- 
~Mike

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