Hello, Unless I'm mistaken, I did not receive a reply to this question: can I apply this patch? I understand that Bastien is quite busy at the moment, so I'm wondering if I should bug somebody else ;) Best, Alan On 2014-09-25 08:17, Alan Schmitt writes: > On 2014-09-24 20:59, Steve Purcell writes: > >> On 24 Sep 2014, at 20:13, Alan Schmitt wrote: >> >>> tell application "System Events" >>> set growlHelpers to the name of every process whose creator type contains "GRRR" >>> if (count of growlHelpers) > 0 then >>> set growlHelperApp to item 1 of growlHelpers >>> else >>> set growlHelperApp to "" >>> end if >>> end tell >>> >>> I get an empty string as returned value. Is is the same for you? >> >> >> Yes, that part works fine on its own even on my machine. But when the >> code passed to AppleScript includes 'tell application >> “GrowlHelperApp”’, then the code will not execute unless the app is >> present — there’s a precompilation step where, presumably, AppleScript >> determines that the target application supports the listed commands. > > I see. I agree this should be removed. > > Org maintainers: can I apply this patch? > > Alan -- OpenPGP Key ID : 040D0A3B4ED2E5C7