AppleScript: Launch und hide application

Try this... (note forum software removes the tab indenting)

---8<-----
tell application "Address Book"
activate
close front window
end tell
---8<-----

Will launch Address Book and then close window leaving application running.

The most obvious problem is that you're telling iCal to hide, not Address Book...?

The second approach is to tell the application to launch, not activate

Launching an application causes it to open in the background. Activating it specifically tells it to come frontmost.

tell application "Address Book" to launch

I can't confirm off-hand whether it works in this particular case (it may open its window behind the current app, which is not the same as hiding), but it might work.

Except he said

flipp wrote:
In Tiger I was using this AppleScript snippet to launch and hide my Address Book:
... my Address Book is launched but the application window stays on screen

so I did code to hide the address book. Agreed his code said hide iCal but his request was Address Book. We better wait for him to clarify I guess. Anyway snippet I posted hides Address Book.

Happy to help. Just to check, did you mark reply as 'Solved' which provided solution?

Cheers