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Re: tell Grog to glog

On 7/01/07 22:46, Gil Dawson wrote:
At 8:25 P +0100 1/7/07, Axel Luttgens wrote:
Sorry if my cosmetic changes somehow have hidden the important piece.
It works here because of the "ignoring application responses" block in the calling script...

Ah, so!  Now this begins to make sense.  So the call to glog triggered the run handler, which returned nothing.  The parameter in the call to glog was just lost, eh?

To make a model of these findings so I can remember it:

The first call to an unlaunched app will only run the run handler. We must wait (2 seconds or so) until the app is finished launching before we can address the app's other handlers.

Well, the 2 second rule is not an absolute one...
In this precise case, I introduced that delay in the calling script so as to allow sufficient time for Grog.app's dialog to dismiss (which I gave a 1 second delay in the "giving up after" argument).

Now, as Luther has pointed, using the launch command from the calling script avoids to have Grog.app's run handler to be run at all.

But the asumptions about the role/nature of Grog.app are then very different than the ones implied by your sample scripts.
For example, if you want Grog.app to stay open for at least 10 seconds, its StartTime global must have been somehow initialized, for example by a double-click on its icon.
Otherwise, each invocation of glog() from the calling script would result in launching Grog.app, executing its glog() handler, then quitting it; not a very efficient way to have Grog.app behaving as a fully fledged application as well as a script library.

Anyway, in a whole, you allowed all of us to remember some fundations of AS!

Thanks,
Axel
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