Re: R23's Osaxen Rant (or much too much ado about nihil)
Re: R23's Osaxen Rant (or much too much ado about nihil)
- Subject: Re: R23's Osaxen Rant (or much too much ado about nihil)
- From: "Bryan" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:46:34 -0500
I second that nomination. I hope that someone is listening.
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From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
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To: AppleScript-Users Mail <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: R23's Osaxen Rant (or much too much ado about nihil)
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Date: Now Sat, Jan 27, 2001, 05:16 PM
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Agreed.
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on 1/27/01 3:55 PM, Peter Gort at email@hidden wrote:
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>> The notion here is that a time-consuming process like a Finder copy can run
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>> in a background thread so that your script can do other things in the
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>> meantime. This can be useful. It's one of the powerful features of Finder
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>> scripting. If the only thing you happen to want to do is the copy, then just
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>> run your custom delay handler until the copy is done. Using the Delay
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>> command in a repeat loop in your delay handler allows the rest of your
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>> machine to function in the meantime.
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> Bill, I must respectfully add to this. While the "bzy " mechanism exists,
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> it's essentially a workaround. We've had a multi threaded Finder since Mac
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> OS 8.0, what we should eventually have got was a parameter to the command
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> indicating whether or not to continue before it finished. For example:
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> Duplicate (finder reference) to (finder reference) [with wait until
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> finished]--boolean, defaults to false
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Bill Cheeseman, Quechee, Vermont <mailto:email@hidden>
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Bryan Kaufman