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Re: What is wrong with this script?

On Nov 28, 2003, at 9:25 PM, Michael Grant wrote:

On Nov 28, 2003, at 9:44 PM, Michelle Steiner 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."

Try using a semicolon instead of the return.

Or a linefeed (aka "ASCII character 10"). "return" is ASCII 13, which is effectively a space as far as most shell tools are concerned.


--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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