Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / October 2005

I've done a few, but if there's going to be actual back-and-forth
conversation I'd rather do it off Usenet. The address on this post works
if you'd like the help.

Piece of cake.

Trivial. But I have to say this doesn't look like a typical use of a
preference pane. What's the rationale for not making this an
application? Or, for that matter, just a double-clickable AppleScript?

G

Are you asking for advice, or are you looking for someone to write the
pref pane for you?

If it's advice, you'll need to be much more specific about exactly what
you're having trouble with.

If you're looking for someone to do it for you, be aware that it's likely
that it won't be free.

Example code follows:

This code starts the Terminal app and runs Telnet in that window having
it connect to
the input ip address.
NOTE: The script is actually a big format string which I used to
produce the real script in the NSString with the actual IP address in
it.

This is not exactly what you want, you just have to pull the SCRIPT
string from a file which is inside your app.

- (void)startTelnet:(NSString *)ip
{
    NSDictionary *errd;
    NSAppleEventDescriptor *ed;
    NSString *scriptcode;
    NSAppleScript *script;

    // This is the script to execute
    // It will bring up the TERMINAL and start a telnet
    // connected to our IP

    NSString *scriptfmt = @"using terms from application \"Terminal\"\
                                \ntell application \"Terminal\"\
                                \nactivate\
                                \n--delay 4\
                                \n--close window 1\
                                \nset argVal to \"/usr/bin/telnet %@ \"\
                                \ndo script argVal\
                                \nend tell\
                                \nend using terms from\
                            \n";

    // (1) Build the script with the input IP address

    scriptcode = [NSString stringWithFormat:scriptfmt,ip];

    // (2) Create the Apple script

    script = [[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource:scriptcode];
   
    // (3) Run it
       
    ed = [script executeAndReturnError:&errd];
}