From: Stephen Schor <beholdthepanda@...>
Date: 2007-12-26T08:29:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Automating OS X with Ruby.

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Thanks for all the replies.  Calling .activate() isn't working for me...but
opening it though the shell with
system("open -a 'itunes'") will work for now.  Here's a snippet from the IRB
session:

  >> require 'rbosa'
    => true
  >> i_chat = OSA.app('iTunes')
    => <OSA::ITunes::Application:0x51fd4c desc="'sign'($6B6F6F68$)">
  >> i_chat.activate
       RuntimeError: Cannot send Apple Event 'miscactv' : procNotFound
(-600)
       from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rubyosa-0.4.0/lib/rbosa.rb:796:in
`__send_event__'
       from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rubyosa-0.4.0/lib/rbosa.rb:796:in
`activate'

However - after a bit of searching I found what looks to be a related post
by *Laurent Sansonetti *in Rubyosa mailing list.
(http://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&tab=wm#inbox/1170f53ede402ae8) about why
calling OSA.app('blah') on certain applications won't
launch them.

-Stephen


On Dec 25, 2007 5:08 PM, Dane Jensen <careo@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Dec 25, 2007, at 3:55 AM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Dec 24, 2007, at 19:23 , Stephen Schor wrote:
> >
> >> However - I can't interact with the *itunes* object unless I
> >> manually open
> >> the application.
> >> After I manually open it - I can call nifty methods like itunes.play
> >> () and
> >> itunes.stop().
> >> I tried calling itunes.open() but that wouldn't launch the
> >> application.
> >
> > I dunno about rubyosa, but applescript uses 'activate'.
>
> Indeed. itunes.activate will start it if it's not open.
>
>
>

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