[Justin W. Williams]

I've created a script to greet me when I login. I set it as a login item. It isn't the ideal set up IMO, though. Is there a way I can get it to run w/o popping up in the dock when I login?

Also, is this the proper way to do the code?

Code:
tell application "Finder"
  if get the time of (the current date) is greater than or equal to 0 then
       if get the time of (the current date) is less than 21600 then 
             say "Its late.  Sleep"
       end if
  end if 
end tell

When I run it, it says its a program error and then '-1312' above the Edit button.

Any help?

[Camelot]

For the dock issue, I assume you've tried setting the 'Hide' option in the Startup Items preference? If so, and it still pops, I don't know... I don't use any startup items (mostly because I never shutdown or log out

As for the script, it works for me. It's not the optimal way to run the script, though, for example, you run "get the time of (the current date) twice, meaning the system has to run current date twice, and extract the time element both times. You can optimize the script by using a variable like:

Code:
tell application "Finder"
  set theTime to time of (current date)
  if (theTime >= 0) and (theTime < 21600) then
    say "It's late, sleep."
  end if
end tell

I'm also not sure you need to check that theTime is greater than zero... I can't think of any situation where the time would be negative, meaning you don't need to bother checking it at all.