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Saturday February 21, 2004
12:03 PM

Mac::Glue and exec

[ #17542 ]

In my iPhoto shell, I made a "reload" command that re-exec-ed the script. I could make changes and simply reload right from the shell prompt. I kinda liked the feature, although it doesn't add much value over re-running the command.

However, once I use some AppleScript (or, I guess, AppleEvents) through Mac::Glue, it breaks. I cannot exec anymore. I can run things in subshells though. Whatever causes this happens after the first interaction. Simply loading a glue does not do anything.

I had a really short example of this, but I somehow messed up the simple operation of putting it on my key drive.


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  • Yeah, gimme an example. And it's "Apple events", FWIW: upcase Apple, downcase events, two words.
    • Found it...

      #!/usr/bin/perl
       
      print "This is stdout\n";
      print STDERR "This is stderr\n";
       
      print "Load Mac::Glue? [y/n] ";
      chomp( my $answer = <STDIN> );
       
      if( $answer =~ m/y/ )
          {
          require Mac::Glue;
          die "Could not load Mac::Glue: $@" if $@;
       
          my $iPhoto = Mac::Glue->new( 'iPhoto' );
       
          print "Talk to iPhoto? [y/n] ";
          chomp( my $answer = <STDIN> );
       
          if( $answer =~ m/y/ )

      • I run this and get:
        [pudge@bourque Desktop]$ perl foo.plx
        This is stdout
        This is stderr
        Load Mac::Glue? [y/n] y
        Talk to iPhoto? [y/n] y
        Current album is Photo Library
        I expect to see an exec error now, with `uname` output
        but not exec 'date' output
        Darwin
        Wed Mar  3 20:01:49 PST 2004
        I presume you expected it to die, not print the date? I am sorry to disappoint! What's your perl -V, and module versions?
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