Start App Without its Main Window

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

I have had an application (PopChar) that I’ve used for years. But, since all the security enhancements in the recent MacOS updates (I’m on Sonoma 14.7.5) every now and then, maybe a couple of times a week, PopChar freezes during startup (it’s a Login item). When it runs normally, the app is started but its main window remains hidden.

So, my plan was to use an AppleScript to launch PopChar after everything during startup has settled down. I’ve used the below script to launch PopChar, but its main window always pops up. So my question, what do I need to add to this script to still launch PopChar, but have its window stay hidden as though it was started as a login item?

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use scripting additions

tell application "PopChar" to activate
#2

Try:

tell application "PopChar" to launch

launch opens an application without the usual run/startup and foreground actions.

#3

Thanks for the suggestion, but the main window still pops up.

#4

Homer712. You might try the script included below. If Camelot’s suggestion didn’t help, I suspect mine won’t either, but it only takes a minute or so to test.

use framework "AppKit"
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions

set theApp to "/Applications/FastScripts.app/" --set to path to app

set theApp to current application's |NSURL|'s fileURLWithPath:theApp
set theWorkspace to current application's NSWorkspace's sharedWorkspace()
set theConfiguration to current application's NSWorkspaceOpenConfiguration's new()
theConfiguration's setActivates:false -- makes frontmost
theConfiguration's setHides:true -- hides if setActivates is false
theWorkspace's openApplicationAtURL:theApp configuration:theConfiguration completionHandler:(missing value)
#5

Looked promising, but no luck.

#6

Found an answer here: Close the window
Post #2 by StefanK

Just changed the name of the application and it works. PopChar doesn’t activate without its main window, but the window gets dismissed almost immediately, I can live with that as a solution.

tell application "PopChar" to activate
tell application "System Events"
	tell process "PopChar"
		click (first button of window 1 whose description is "close button")
	end tell
end tell