About Adam Knight
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Austin, TX
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http://www.hopelessgeek.com/
Author Biography
Adam Knight is one of the founders of Mac Geekery and is a geek at heart. Programmer by day, hacker by night, his daily life revolves around the Macintosh platform, which he has been a user and programmer for since the early days of System 7 when his LCII replaced his Apple //c.
In-between tech jobs, he’s managed to learn the basics of any web hacker: PHP, MySQL, Perl, Apache, Linux, *BSD, and the intricacies of ./configure —prefix=~/bombshelter/. Today, codepoet is concentrating on blogging again, writing some software for the Mac by himself (including Notae) and for his company (such as Photonic) and has a few other toys coming out soon. Bug him over AIM or email [link fixed].
Hmm. Rarely to I click on an app in the Dock I don’t want to start, because most of the apps in my Dock are ones I keep open all the time. The rest I start with LaunchBar. But regardless of how an app gets opened, on the occasions when I do so unintentionally, I simply click and hold on the bouncing icon and choose Force Quit from the item’s Dock menu, and away it goes.
And I start mine with Switchblade. And others with Quicksilver. But, everyone has a different workflow and, thus, the question.
But, yeah, the easiest solution is a simple right-click/force quit.
That for the simple Applescript..I’ll use it for Soundtrack (which as you know is a bear)
I do have a question though – Where can i see what Apps have been launced, when (date/ time) and by whom?
Cheers
Sean
You can stop any program you launch with the option + click on the icon in the dock. You will have the choice of the Force Quit in the menu and voilà. This is what i use always if the app take to long to start but if it speedy command + Q.
As simple as that
Alain
I agree wholeheartedly with the idea of a Force Quit for an inadvertent application launch instead of the Cancel/OK dialogue.
Sorry to be blunt, but putting up a dialogue for every app launch from the Dock is a rather inelegant fix.
OK, maybe that comment is too strong. But I feel strongly that putting up that dialogue box is an unnecessary fix for a problem that already has a solution.
jimm
jimm
Right, and as I said this is the answer to the user’s question, not the best way to go about it. Read all the comments, first, please.
A dumb question – once i have created the script, how do i get it to run in the doc? when i click it, it just opens up the script editor.
Thanks!
In Script Editor, save it as an application rather than a script.
What I’d like to see is an applescript that lets me right-click on a file and choose to quickly open it in Preview. I know I can choose ‘Open With’ and scroll through a huge list of apps — including many duplicate names for some odd reason — but it’s slow and annoying to do repeatedly. A script to do the same with attachments from Entourage email messages would be awesome.
Does it exist already or should I program it?
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