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Re: iTunes, NSAppleScript, and timeout

patrick machielse wrote:

Timing out seems to work fine most of the time _except_ when iTunes' open panel is up the first time doScript: is executed. In that case I have to sit through the entire default timeout period (2 minutes).
[...]
Is this a bug

Your ObjC program is compiling AppleScript source code on the fly, so if the AppleScript component hasn't already obtained the iTunes terminology, it sends iTunes an 'ascrgdte' event to get it. That's the event that's stalling, not the 'get' command in your script.

There's no way to specify a custom timeout for the 'ascrgdte' event, so you'll need to use a different approach that doesn't require getting iTunes' terminology at runtime: either 1. load a compiled AppleScript (.scpt) file located in your bundle, or 2. ditch AppleScript and talk to iTunes directly from ObjC via the low-level Apple Event Manager API (tedious as hell for anything non-trivial) or via a high-level API such as objc-appscript [1] (see my sig).

HTH

has

[1] Not entirely finished (you'll need to ask me about specifying timeouts and other attributes), but already quite usable.
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