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Re: NSAppleScript with threading
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Re: NSAppleScript with threading


  • Subject: Re: NSAppleScript with threading
  • From: Nathan Day <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 14:08:14 +1000

On Tuesday, May 10, 2005, at 01:57PM, Charles Srstka <email@hidden> wrote:

>On May 9, 2005, at 6:31 PM, Nathan Day wrote:
>
>> you can catch all AppleEvents for your application from the
>> AppleScript and forward them into your main thread.
>
>However, simply fork/execing osascript would probably be much easier,
>no?
>
>Charles
>
>

osascript simply fails if it tries to do any gui stuff. You could write your own equivalent though and set the default apple event handler to something other than the current process (the default), you main application for instance, that way any gui stuff like display dialog no wrapped in a 'tell application' would be handled by your main application.

Nathan Day
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