designing a wrapper for an X11 app

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Une bévue - 28 Nov 2006 15:20 GMT

I'm using an X11 app (Sylpheed) and instead of lauchning it by xterm,
i'd like to design a tiny wrapper clickable from Finder side.

Do you know of such example ?

I think this could be done using AppleScript ?

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Patrick Machielse - 28 Nov 2006 21:32 GMT

> I'm using an X11 app (Sylpheed) and instead of lauchning it by xterm,
> i'd like to design a tiny wrapper clickable from Finder side.

The easiest option is to use Platypus:

<http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus>

> I think this could be done using AppleScript ?

You could probably use the 'do shell script' command if you want to
create your own wrapper in AppleScript. All the details:

<http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html>

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Une bévue - 29 Nov 2006 04:52 GMT

> You could probably use the 'do shell script' command if you want to
> create your own wrapper in AppleScript. All the details:
>
> <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html>

yes thanks, i've started that way.

i've forgotten Platypus...

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