Re: FW: "giving up after" in pre 8.5?
Re: FW: "giving up after" in pre 8.5?
- Subject: Re: FW: "giving up after" in pre 8.5?
- From: Chris Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 21:34:13 -0800
- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
doggman wrote:
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Just passing this along :-) I think it was meant for the whole group.
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Jeff
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> From: Chris <email@hidden>
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> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 00:12:25 +0000
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> To: email@hidden
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> Subject: "giving up after" in pre 8.5?
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> I'm new on this list so please forgive me if this is an old question.
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> I've just finished writing my first AppleScript which worked wonderfully on
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> System 9. However, I just discovered that the "giving up after" optional field
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> of the "display dialog" command wasn't supported prior to OS 8.5. Since I
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> need to run this script on a 68K machine (and OS 8.1), is there a simple way
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> to work around this problem?
It's a new question to me! I believe that if you take a compiled script or applet
that uses "giving up after" back to 8.1, it will still work, but will ignore the
"giving up after" parameter. Naturally, it won't give up automatically, but you
shouldn't get an error, either. If you want it to give up automatically even on
8.1, then that's a lot tougher. There's no way to do it in plain AppleScript, but
some scripting addition might do the trick.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering