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AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
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AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

by Matt Neuburg
January 2006
Beginner
592 pages
16h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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choose remote application

Synopsis

remote application selection dialog

remote application selection dialog

Puts up a dialog with title "Choose Remote Application" and two panes, one for selecting a local machine or entering an IP number, the other with default prompt "Select an application." The target machine must have Remote Apple Events turned on in the Sharing system preferences. I have not been able to get the local-machine choice to work (where the Bonjour names of local machines are listed automatically) but using the IP number works, and a Bonjour name can be entered manually. You can supply the title and prompt. Returns an eppc URL string suitable for targeting the application remotely; see Chapter 23. (New in Tiger.)

Examples

choose remote application
-- application "Finder" of machine "eppc://192.168.0.4/?uid=501&pid=178"
using terms from application "Finder"
    set ap to choose remote application -- I choose Finder on remote machine
    -- username/password dialog appears, I fill it out
    tell ap
        get name of window 1 -- Desktop
    end tell
end using terms from
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