Bug report: applescript command - R-SIG-Mac

Sat, Aug 20, 2005 9:34 AM #

If you send a command to R with applescript you must move the mouse or
push a key before command is run.

To replicate:

 * start with R closed
 * on the command line, osascript -e 'tell application "R" to activate' 
 * then osascript -e "tell application \"R\" to cmd \"print('hi')\""
 * print('hi') doesn't appear until you move the mouse or press a key

What should happen:

 * print('hi') should appear immediately

GUI version: Version 1.12 (1622)

Hadley

Rob Goedman

Sat, Aug 20, 2005 3:34 PM #

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Hadley Wickham

Sun, Aug 21, 2005 8:39 AM #

Hi,

That applescript code is actually getting run from textmate
(http://macromates.com/) - doing pretty much the same thing you're
doing with Spark and see.  I'm a bit doubtful that it's a bug with
osascript, because it's an apple app, and others have complained about
menu actions not triggering until they move the mouse, which may well
be related.

Hadley