Open - Apple's little secret
23/10/12 10:46 Filed in: Applications
OS X’s open command is the secret sauce for gluing web control panels to OS X applications.
Adding a web control panel to a Mac application can be achieved simply through the use of your favourite web scripting language SSH and the open command. In my case I use phpseclib (http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net) to log in to a mac and then exec the open command with the full path to the application and any arguments.
An example would be:
Finer control can be had by invoking an osascript and it may also be necessary to close running applications before attempting to start them with new arguments.
An example would be:
open -a /Applications/QuickTime\ Player.app http://www.amproductions.com/videos/demos/movies/m2demo2xcdr.movFiner control can be had by invoking an osascript and it may also be necessary to close running applications before attempting to start them with new arguments.