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Start WebDeskop on a specific local page

Feedback Type: Usage Tip

Contributed by: TinyManCan Sunday, February 27 2005 @ 06:04 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

You can use the command line 'open' command to force WebDesktop to open and load a specific local page. For example:

open -a /Applications/WebDesktop.app ~/layout3.html

Causes WebDesktop to open and load the layout3.html file in your home directory. I use this in my user login script to load a page containing information updated by cron scripts to provide a personal 'information portal.' Works very well as the background on my second monitor.

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Start WebDeskop on a specific local page - djoe

is this for applescript? Sorry, I don't know anything about scripts, but I've tried it in Applescript and I get it telling me "A unknown token can't go after this identifier".
I also tried this: open application "Webdesktop" ~/layout3.html
and this: tell application "WebDesktop" to open location "http://www.apple.com"

The last one opens the webpage, but in safari.

Would love to work this out, (I've been searching for answers all over the net, but don't have enough basic knowledge). The app will be great if I can make this adjustment!

Cheers

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Friday, August 26 2005 @ 09:16 PM PDT