[X-Unix] Hiding apps from the command line

[Simon Forster]

On 26 Mar 2004, at 13:59, Eugene Lee wrote:

> BTW, here's a revised version based on your script, shortened in a few
> spots for brevity's sake.

I'm sorta glad you told me about this. I've started to play with this 
and found it educational but... displacement activity. What about that 
report I've been meaning to get written for the past _2_ weeks.

<sigh />

The error seems to get thrown if the second command line arg is not 
given - whether it's needed or not.

FWIW, my take on the script:


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#!/bin/sh
# This script lets you hide a specified application, the Finder, all
# applications but the Finder, or all applications other than a 
specified
# application.
# Syntax is as follows:
#
# hide -o [appname] - hides all other apps
# hide -a           - hides all apps but Finder
# hide -f           - hides Finder
# hide -v [appname] - shows specified app
# hide -t           - toggles shown apps
# hide -x           - shows terminal
# hide [appname]   	- hides specified app
#
# For applications whose names contain spaces, they must be quoted,
# ie, hide "microsoft word".  This command is case-insensitive.

osascript <<END
	tell application "Finder"
		
		if "$1" begins with "-" then
			if "$1" contains "o" then set visible of every process whose visible 
is true and name is not "$2" to false
			if "$1" contains "a" then set visible of every process whose visible 
is true and name is not "Finder" and name is not "$2" to false
			if "$1" contains "f" then set visible of process "Finder" to false
			if "$1" contains "v" then tell me to tell application "$2" to 
activate
			if "$1" contains "t" then
				set theVisible to name of every process whose visible is true
				repeat with theProcess in every process
					if theVisible contains name of theProcess then
						set visible of contents of theProcess to false
					else
						set visible of contents of theProcess to true
					end if
				end repeat
			end if
			if "$1" contains "x" then tell application "Terminal" to activate
		else if exists application process "$1" then
			set visible of application process "$1" to false
		end if
		
	end tell
END

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Simon Forster
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