--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/Mac/PythonLauncher/doscript.m	Wed Jun 07 18:58:01 2006 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+/*
+ *  doscript.c
+ *  PythonLauncher
+ *
+ *  Created by Jack Jansen on Wed Jul 31 2002.
+ *  Copyright (c) 2002 __MyCompanyName__. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ */
+
+#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
+#import <ApplicationServices/ApplicationServices.h>
+#import "doscript.h"
+
+/* I assume I could pick these up from somewhere, but where... */
+#define CREATOR 'trmx'
+
+#define ACTIVATE_CMD 'misc'
+#define ACTIVATE_SUITE 'actv'
+
+#define DOSCRIPT_CMD 'dosc'
+#define DOSCRIPT_SUITE 'core'
+#define WITHCOMMAND 'cmnd'
+
+/* ... and there's probably also a better way to do this... */
+#define START_TERMINAL "/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal &"
+
+extern int 
+doscript(const char *command)
+{
+    OSErr err;
+    AppleEvent theAEvent, theReply;
+    AEAddressDesc terminalAddress;
+    AEDesc commandDesc;
+    OSType terminalCreator = CREATOR;
+    
+    /* set up locals  */
+    AECreateDesc(typeNull, NULL, 0, &theAEvent);
+    AECreateDesc(typeNull, NULL, 0, &terminalAddress);
+    AECreateDesc(typeNull, NULL, 0, &theReply);
+    AECreateDesc(typeNull, NULL, 0, &commandDesc);
+    
+    /* create the "activate" event for Terminal */
+    err = AECreateDesc(typeApplSignature, (Ptr) &terminalCreator,
+            sizeof(terminalCreator), &terminalAddress);
+    if (err != noErr) {
+        NSLog(@"doscript: AECreateDesc: error %d\n", err);
+        goto bail;
+    }
+    err = AECreateAppleEvent(ACTIVATE_SUITE, ACTIVATE_CMD,
+            &terminalAddress, kAutoGenerateReturnID,
+            kAnyTransactionID, &theAEvent);
+    
+    if (err != noErr) {
+        NSLog(@"doscript: AECreateAppleEvent(activate): error %d\n", err);
+        goto bail;
+    }
+    /* send the event  */
+    err = AESend(&theAEvent, &theReply, kAEWaitReply,
+            kAENormalPriority, kAEDefaultTimeout, NULL, NULL);
+    if ( err == -600 ) {
+        int count=10;
+        /* If it failed with "no such process" try to start Terminal */
+        err = system(START_TERMINAL);
+        if ( err ) {
+            NSLog(@"doscript: system(): %s\n", strerror(errno));
+            goto bail;
+        }
+        do {
+            sleep(1);
+            /* send the event again */
+            err = AESend(&theAEvent, &theReply, kAEWaitReply,
+                    kAENormalPriority, kAEDefaultTimeout, NULL, NULL);
+        } while (err == -600 && --count > 0);
+        if ( err == -600 )
+            NSLog(@"doscript: Could not activate Terminal\n");
+    }
+    if (err != noErr) {
+        NSLog(@"doscript: AESend(activate): error %d\n", err);
+        goto bail;
+    }
+            
+    /* create the "doscript with command" event for Terminal */
+    err = AECreateAppleEvent(DOSCRIPT_SUITE, DOSCRIPT_CMD,
+            &terminalAddress, kAutoGenerateReturnID,
+            kAnyTransactionID, &theAEvent);
+    if (err != noErr) {
+        NSLog(@"doscript: AECreateAppleEvent(doscript): error %d\n", err);
+        goto bail;
+    }
+    
+    /* add the command to the apple event */
+    err = AECreateDesc(typeChar, command, strlen(command), &commandDesc);
+    if (err != noErr) {
+        NSLog(@"doscript: AECreateDesc(command): error %d\n", err);
+        goto bail;
+    }
+    err = AEPutParamDesc(&theAEvent, WITHCOMMAND, &commandDesc);
+    if (err != noErr) {
+        NSLog(@"doscript: AEPutParamDesc: error %d\n", err);
+        goto bail;
+    }
+
+    /* send the command event to Terminal.app */
+    err = AESend(&theAEvent, &theReply, kAEWaitReply,
+            kAENormalPriority, kAEDefaultTimeout, NULL, NULL);
+    
+    if (err != noErr) {
+        NSLog(@"doscript: AESend(docommand): error %d\n", err);
+        goto bail;
+    }
+    /* clean up and leave */
+bail:
+    AEDisposeDesc(&commandDesc);
+    AEDisposeDesc(&theAEvent);
+    AEDisposeDesc(&terminalAddress);
+    AEDisposeDesc(&theReply);
+    return err;
+}