How to start an app at a specific time?

[pulsewidth947]

Is there anyway I can set my mac to open an app on Friday at 10:30pm? I guess an applescript would do it but I dont know enough about AS to create that.


:EDIT: Stupid me, you can do this with iCal cant you!!

 

[katie ta achoo]

Is there anyway I can set my mac to open an app on Friday at 10:30pm? I guess an applescript would do it but I dont know enough about AS to create that.

You can set up an iCal event to open a specific file.
Just remember to keep iCal open.

I'd post detailed instructions, but I'm not at my PB.

/Mmm.... at school
//where's my pb?
///COMPAQ?
////has a calculus test very soon.

 

[pulsewidth947]

Yeah I remembered that just after I posted

Apple makes everything easy. If I tried to do this on my PC I'd have to install 30 programs, pay £666 and sell my soul

 

[fayans]

How do you let iCal start the application?

 

[wordmunger]

How do you let iCal start the application?

You just specify the application as the file you want it to open.

EDIT: and you don't need iCal to be running at the time. I think you probably do need your computer to be awake, however.

 

[pulsewidth947]

Yeah in iCal just go to set an alarm, and just say "Open File" and choose the app, then set when you want the app to open.

And I guess a quick script could be made to close the program, and another event could be made to close the app at a specific time.

Man I'm gonna have to look into that - that could prove really useful for the server at work

 

[fayans]

That's awesome! I learn a new trick today. Thanks

 

[SummerBreeze]

That is very cool, I didn't realize you could do that. I thought you had to go through automater and stuff like that. Apple sure does make it easy on all of us.

 

[jsw]

Apple sure does make it easy on all of us.

Yeah... the hardest part is trying to figure out how they make a given thing easy for us.

 

[carpe diem]

Whilst talking about this how do you make salling clicker go to a specific web page? When i set it to go it just goes to whatever page is open or the home page!

 

[fayans]

That is very cool, I didn't realize you could do that. I thought you had to go through automater and stuff like that. Apple sure does make it easy on all of us.

The next harder part would be to automate the next process after the application is opened. I suppose iCal doesn't do that but automater does.

 

[jeremy.king]

I was surprised not to see ubergeek responses telling you to use cron...