[AJM]

Hi,
is Script Editor scriptable?
What I am trying to do is to use the ScriptMenu to launch all my programs.
I made scripts like:

tell application "Blah"
activate
end tell

which I save in my Library/Scripts folder and then use to launch Blah.
It works for most of the applications, but not the Script Editor itself.
What is the problem?
Thanks,
AJM

[kamprath]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by AJM:
<strong>Hi,
is Script Editor scriptable?
What I am trying to do is to use the ScriptMenu to launch all my programs.
I made scripts like:

tell application "Blah"
activate
end tell

which I save in my Library/Scripts folder and then use to launch Blah.
It works for most of the applications, but not the Script Editor itself.
What is the problem?
Thanks,
AJM</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">I don't know the direct answer to your question, but do know a work around:

tell application "Finder" to open {"/path/to/ScriptEditor" as alias}

You might not need the braces {} . . . that ends up being application specific.

[AJM]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by kamprath:
<strong>
I don't know the direct answer to your question, but do know a work around:

tell application "Finder" to open {"/path/to/ScriptEditor" as alias}

You might not need the braces {} . . . that ends up being application specific.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks for the suggestion. But apparently this works well for a document. For an application, it tells me it doesn't know what applications to open it with. So I tried:

tell application "Finder"
open application "Calculator"
end tell

It launches Calculator, but then it stops saying "Calculator got an error: can't continue open"
Any ideas?
Thanks again
AJM

[Synotic]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by AJM:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by kamprath:
<strong>
I don't know the direct answer to your question, but do know a work around:

tell application "Finder" to open {"/path/to/ScriptEditor" as alias}

You might not need the braces {} . . . that ends up being application specific.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks for the suggestion. But apparently this works well for a document. For an application, it tells me it doesn't know what applications to open it with. So I tried:

tell application "Finder"
open application "Calculator"
end tell

It launches Calculator, but then it stops saying "Calculator got an error: can't continue open"
Any ideas?
Thanks again
AJM</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Have you tried...

tell application "Script Editor" to launch

or

[b]tell application "Finder" to launch application "Script Editor"

And if all else fails, I know this will work.. it's just not a very elegant and might also be a tad bit slower.. or faster. You never know:

do shell script "open /Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor"

Or whatever the path is...

HTH

[AJM]

Thanks Synotic,
your last suggestion worked (but you have to add ".app" at the end and use "\\ " for any space in the path).
The first two work for other applications, but not the Script Editor.
Wonder why...
Anyway, it is fast enough.
Thanks again,
Aldo