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Re: [MacPerl] Exit Runtime version and restart machine
Thanks all for the help. That fixed the problem.
>>> Tom Maas - 5/8/2000 1:59 PM >>>
>I haveRuntime version of a script that monitors two mounted volumes. If ether
>volume disconnects I want the computer to restart automatcally to try to
>reconnect. However when I do the following:
>
>MacPerl::DoAppleScript(<<END);
>tell application "Finder"
> restart
>end tell
>END
>
>MacPerl wants to confirm that I want to quit. Is there a way to by pass
>this.
>
>
Here is a qoute from a few weeks ago.
Think this is what you need.
Cheers Tommy.
>MacPerl::Quit(3);
>
>...somewhere in your script where it will run (e.g. near the top),
>and MacPerl will quit after running the CGI if it is the first
>program run by MacPerl, but not if you have previously run another
>program with MacPerl. Thus, you can open MacPerl, do nothing, and
>run the droplet and MacPerl will quit (not what you asked for).
>However, if you open MacPerl, run ANOTHER script, then run the
>droplet, MacPerl will NOT quit. (It will also quit if MacPerl wasn't
>open at all when you run the droplet.)
>
>Documentation on MacPerl::Quit() (there are other options) is in the
>file macperl.pod which comes with the MacPerl distribution (readable
>with the included shuck program) and is covered in Chapter 12 of
>"MacPerl Power and Ease".
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>-David-
>David Steffen, Ph.D.
>President, Biomedical Computing, Inc. <http://www.biomedcomp.com/>
>Phone: (713) 610-9770 FAX: (713) 610-9769 E-mail: steffen@biomedcomp.com
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