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Re: how to bring appleScript's alerts to the front

Itia Gerbi wrote:

While running an applescript, something it shows some alerts (msg boxes)
to the user.

The problem is that since the applescript is invoked from another
application, sometimes the alerts are hidden behind the main application
and the user can't see them.

How can I bring the alerts to the front of the screen?

Each window on the Mac belongs to an application. Probably the easiest way to raise the alert window is to raise the application posting it. There is AppleScript verbiage to do this, something like:

    tell application "Xyz" to activate

If the dialog is posted by an AppleScript 'display dialog' command, then the dialog is owned by the app named by the innermost 'tell' block containing the display dialog statement. If it isn't inside a tell, well, I've never gotten osascript to display a dialog outside a tell block (and starting in 10.4 I get a meaningful error message: "execution error: No user interaction allowed. (-1713)"). I think that in that case the dialog would belong to the application executing the script, and in the case of osascript there is no GUI environment (for example, I can do it when running from the Script Editor application).
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