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Re: What is wrong with this script?

on 29/11/2003 14:44, Michelle Steiner at email@hidden wrote:

> set effect to (button returned of (display dialog "Which Dock effect do
> you want?" buttons {"Scale", "Genie", " Suck"}))
>
> do shell script "defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect " & effect &
> return & "killall Dock"
>
> --> "2003-11-28 20:43:34.216 defaults[1019] Unexpected argument Dock;
> leaving defaults unchanged."

Shouldn't that be:

do shell script "defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect " & effect &
";killall Dock"

The ";" allows you to put 2 commands on the online. The second command oinly
executes if the first one succeeds.

Of course the newline character for unix is a linefeed not a return, but I
am not sure if "do shell script" can handle multiple lines.

--
Matthew Smith
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