Hiding programs

Hi All,
I have just taken the plunge into mac land so expect a lot of questions from me in the near future.
My first one is , is there a way of opening and hiding programs at the same time automatically on start up e.g. Mail and Itunes .

Thanks

In System Preferences, under Accounts, you can choose Login Items that will load when your computer starts up. It also has the option to Hide it. When I put mail in my login items and selected hide, it didn't. So I wrote an applescript that will open it and close the top window and put that in my login items instead. I don't see why it wouldn't work for iTunes too. Here's the code:

Just copy it into an applescript, then add that to your login items

I tried the above in applescript editor when I pressed run it came up with an error message and highlited "to close front window".
Its probably something I've done wrong my little brain is still in windows mode.

maccsyd said:

I tried the above in applescript editor when I pressed run it came up with an error message and highlited "to close front window".
Its probably something I've done wrong my little brain is still in windows mode.

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Thats because the application is running but you have no windows open. It should work when you put it in your login items because the "activate" command will open the app with a window.

I don't know if I explained that well enough but if you want to test it, completely close the apps first. Then when you run it, it will open the apps and close the top window just like it will on login

You could just open System Preferences, go to Accounts, click "Login Items", then click the + sign to add the application, then click the "Hide" button.

surfwax95 said:

You could just open System Preferences, go to Accounts, click "Login Items", then click the + sign to add the application, then click the "Hide" button.

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I mentioned that, but when I did it that way, Mail wouldn't hide. I wanted it to hide so I had to write a script to do it for me. (Quicksilver had the same issue a while back here)

Ah, my bad, just saw the Applescript stuff.

Thanks for the help I finally got it to work when I realised it wasn't saving it as an application file )