help with remote scripting

[Ray_Barber]

I need to be able to find the current app of a remote machine and insert the name of that app into a textedit doc on the machine that is using the remote script

pleasse help

[Camelot]

The following script will get the name of the frontmost application on a remote Mac OS X machine:

set remoteMac to “eppc://remote.local”
tell application “System Events” of machine remoteMac
set frontApp to name of (first application process whose frontmost is true)
end tell

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It should be easy to log the front app from here (although I’d recommend writing it to a log file rather than relying on editing a TextEdit document.

If the remote Mac is running OS 9.x you’ll need to target the Finder rather than System Events.