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Re: Showing and closing windows in AppleScript Studio (Xcode 2, Tiger)

In Panther, when a user closed a window, it was not released in memory (and therefore leaked), which is why 'show window "Main"' or 'set visible of window "Main" to true' still worked after the window was closed.  In Tiger, we fixed this leak by releasing the window object when the user closes the window.  It therefore no longer exists to respond to further show commands.  

The solution for Tiger is not to close the window, but instead hide it if you want to keep it around. You can do this by adding an 'on should close' handler to your application as shown in the following example:

on choose menu item theObject
    show window "Main"
end choose menu item

on should close theObject
    hide window "Main"
    return false
end should close



John Coelho
AppleScript / Automator Engineering Team

On Apr 22, 2005, at 7:02 AM, Kristofer Szymanski wrote:


I am working with my AppleScript Studio projects in Xcode 2.0 (I am running Tiger) and notice that if I close a window in an AppleScript application there is no way to get it back... probably because the AppleScript name of the window is gone.

Here is a small project that illustrates this problem:


Please tell me if I am doing something wrong or (if not) if there is any workaround. Thanks for your help.

Kristofer


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