Launch Finder Without Opening a New Window

Question

Hello,
I'm making an application that resizes the icons on the desktop, and I would like to know if it's possible to launch the the Finder without it automatically opening a new Finder window.
My, Applescripts look something like this right now..
on «event coVScliI» theObject
(do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder DesktopViewOptions -dict IconSize -integer 70")
(do shell script "killall Finder")
tell application "Finder"
activate
end tell
end «event coVScliI»
The reason for my killing the Finder in the first place is because it needs to be restarted for the changes to take affect.

Answer 1

Hi,
If you don't mind using [GUI Scripting|http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/uiscripting/index.html], then the following script should relaunch the Finder without opening any new window (at least it does on Mac OS X 10.6.2) :
tell application "Finder" to activate
tell application "System Events"
key code 53 using {option down, command down} -- ⌥⌘⎋
click (row 1 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of window 1 of process "loginwindow" whose value of text field 1 is "Finder")
keystroke return
keystroke return
keystroke "w" using command down -- ⌘W
end tell
(If the script doesn't work properly on your computer, first try adding a “delay” statement before the problematic line of code, for example “delay 0.2”.)