Apple script for a 1 year long installation!

gapworks

@fred thats exactly my problem! no idea about apple script! and the description of your link is different than my calendar in mac high sierra! there is no alert function...

Michel

@gapworks

This would be your script to open Isadora with a delay of 120 seconds, you can do the same with ableton. Save the script as application and put it to the startup objects.

delay 120 --time in seconds
tell application "Isadora"
activate
end tell

Best Michel

Fred

@gapworks I think it is now in alerts and then choose open file, I dont find any references to this dissapearing in high sierra, but I did see a few notes about setting different alert possibilities in prefrences.

gapworks

@michel thanx a lot works great so far! @Fred same to you for your help!

gapworks

@michel one more question. isadora works great because i can tell to use the recent file. abelton starts with an empty file. is there a way to tell abelton what file to use?

Fred

@gapworks https://www.ableton.com/answer...

Maxime

@gapworks You can tell Ableton to start with a certain file in the preferences. However, I tried to use that feature before (in a similar situation than the one you have, somebody had to turn on automatically an installation) and I found it was acting a bit weird. Live open your file but it's appearing an untitled file (even though you can recognize your file) and it was not working properly time to time.

I think you can tell your apple script to open "this file" with this "software". I would investigate that way...

Michel

@gapworks

delay 120 --time in seconds

tell application "Finder"

open POSIX file "path to your specific Ableton file"

delay 10 --time in seconds

tell application "Isadora"

activate

end tell

Maximortal

OT (not so OT)

i've tried to reach same goal in w10 and schedule management do not start a specific izzy patch at startup, I found a whorkarund creating a .bat file that run isadora patch an then i've placed this file into startup folder...any other solutions (tryed by me) didn't works...but my workaround can not create a delay between ableton and sadora. Any ideas? or schedule management works on your machine?

P.S.: i'm on w10 1709

Juriaan

@maximortal

Hi there,

For Windows there is AutoHotKey that works great

Maximortal

@juriaan said:

AutoHotKey

i'm giving it a wiew. thanks

Fred

@maximortal I use task sceduler and always up, alwaysup can monitor your application and restart it if it crashes, it has some utilities for waiting between actions.