Is This Possible ...?

[gdwarner]

Greetings.

So I bought my ex an iBook, and our anniversary is coming up. What I’d like to do is write an agent that will play a rather lengthy sound file from The Flintstones on that day (that rather tedious ‘Happy Anniversary’ song, sung by a bunch of waiters), and sleep for a year … then do it again next year :oP

Naturally, she would delete the sound file as soon as she finds it … so I need to make the sound file invisible. Can’t put the sound file in a folder, because she may trash or rename the folder, so ideally, the invisible sound file would sit on the Desktop.

I have a script written already that dumps her browser’s cache file set to run on shutdown, so I could use that to activate the agent in the appropriate month … and, of course, the agent will have to be hidden also.

The questions:

Is there a way to make the sound file invisible via AppleScript?

Is there a way to make that sound play while still invisible?

Is there a way to hide the agent?

Thanks for the assist …

–gdw

[Paul_Courtade]

The sound file can be made invisibile using Apple Script and employing the File Visibility Osaxen (I believe available in MacScripter Scripting Additions)

The sound file will play while invisible using the set sound volume & play sound commands from “Jon’s Commands” Osaxen also available in the Scripting Additions.

The agent can also be made invisible and activated from within the “dump browser cache” script which you have already written.

[T.J_Mahaffey]

http://www.osaxen.com/file_visibility.html

http://osaxen.com/jons_commands.html