I am trying to set up fastscripts to allow me to control an application on another machine, I have a two machine set up using teleport and want to be able to send applescript controls from my main machine to my laptop and vice versa.
however when you run a remote script fastscripts just quits with no error message or anything. You don't need to assign a shortcut it crashes if you just call the menu item.
Example script
tell application "itunes" of machine "eppc://myMachine.local" next track end tell
I haven't tested FastScripts for this kind of thing. The first question of course is whether the same script behaves as expected when running from the Script Editor. Second, can you tell me whether the system Console shows any error message after you try to run the script from FastScripts?
Ooooh! I didn't quite get from your first message that it was FastScripts that was quitting/crashing. I thought it was the script you were referring to. OK... that makes this very interesting indeed.
Thanks - the crash log is a good lead. I will set something up here and see if I can reproduce the crash. It shows it crashing in Apple's code for executing the script, but maybe there is something I can do to prevent it or make the script work as expected.
Just to let you know, I have updated to leopard on one of my machine and the remote script now works as expected. I am able to control applications remotely form the fastScripts menu and using shortcuts.
Wow! That's a happy outcome. I guess since you're the first person in 5+ years to ask about it, I'll just wait and see if Leopard does the trick for people who are interested in that functionality.