Re: iCal Alarms

FROM : Cocoa Developer
DATE : Tue Dec 21 22:04:08 2004

Is there something special by restarting iCalAlarmShceduler? I edit
.ics file ,restart iCalAlarmShceduler and... nothing :/


> What about simply restarting (either kill and re-launch, or HUP) the
> iCalAlarmShceduler.app (in iCal.app/Contents/Resources/)?
>
> -Phil
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:32:13 -0700, Kevin Patfield
> <<email_removed>> wrote:

>>
>> On Dec 21, 2004, at 00:24:14 +0200, Cocoa Developer wrote:
>>

>>> Subject: iCal alarms
>>> I am trying to create a program, which should use iCal calendars for
>>> shedulling alarms. My question: is there any way to add event into
>>> calendar by editing calendar file, that iCal launching would not be
>>> required. Because I have tried to add event with alarm manual, but
>>> until iCal is launched, iCal Helper doesn't show my event alarm :(.

>>
>> It's quite easy to just write into a .ics file, the trick is getting
>> iCal to notice. The following works for me:
>>
>> 1) determine if iCal is running using NSWorkspace
>> 2) if it is, send it a "reload calendars" message using Applescript
>> 3) if not, tell it to launch and then quit it using Applescript
>>
>> Kevin Patfield, Phoenix, Arizona