Re: Script not waiting for completion of Eudora task
Re: Script not waiting for completion of Eudora task
- Subject: Re: Script not waiting for completion of Eudora task
- From: Max Bonilla <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 23:15:35 -0600
I have the same problem with a Retrospect script and I don't use
"Ignoring application responses ... end ignoring". What I think
happens is that the application might send a confirmation that the
process was done (i.e., started) without consideration for how long
it's taking, and therefore the script just moves on. As Rob, I would
like to know how to control the script. I would not want to use
"with timeout" because I don't want to give an artificially long
period of time; I would want the script to continue as soon as the
process is over, but not before.
Max
Rob Jorgensen wrote:
> I'm working on a script which tells Eudora to check the mail, and
then, based on the results of that check, do some other stuff.
The script, in its present form, tells Eudora to check the mail, but
doesn't wait for the check to complete before proceeding. I've tried
adding a pause between 2 separate tell statements to Eudora, but the
pause ends up pausing Eudora in the middle of it's mail check and
> then the script proceeds before Eudora is finished checking.
If your script isn't waiting for the completion of the Eudora task,
should I assume that you've got the tell block to Eudora bracketed by
"ignoring application responses...end ignoring"? If so, change that to
"with timeout of n seconds...end timeout" and give "n" a large enough
value that it won't timeout before Eudora is done with its task.
Marc [12/2/00 9:17:04 PM]