Re: Interrupting a script with an open dialog
Re: Interrupting a script with an open dialog
- Subject: Re: Interrupting a script with an open dialog
- From: Greg Strange <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 15:00:13 -0600
on 11/2/00 1:26 AM, Marc K. Myers at email@hidden wrote:
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Scripts with open dialogs don't respond to quit events sent to them. Is
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there a way around this?
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I've got a script application that display a dialog (via Dialog
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Director) that sits on the desktop all the time. When its single button
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is clicked, the dialog goes away, the script calls the run handler in
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another script that's idling in the background, and then terminates.
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This is fine, except that when the user tries to shutdown or restart he
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is blocked by the open dialog's causing the script to ignore the
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system's command that it shut itself down.
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I can force it to quit with a Control-Command-Q, but I've found no way
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to simulate that programmatically. Can anyone tell me how to get the
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attention of a script with an open dialog?
Have you tried changing the window style in DD to a palette instead of a
standard dialog? Palettes tend to allow you to Cmd-Tab through your
applications and don't hogtie the Finder.
Greg Strange
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