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Re: shutting down...


  • Subject: Re: shutting down...
  • From: Phi Sanders <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:35:31 -0500

It's been mentioned before that activating an application
<especially the finder?> after initiating shutdown (or restart)
would interrupt the shutdown process.

Having not personally tested this, I can only report what I've heard.


~Phi
--
Phi Sanders
"Phee, Phi, Pho, Phum..."

"And now, back to your regularly scheduled reality."

On 1/31/01, Braulio Gonzales {email@hidden} said the following :

>I'm having problems running an AppleScript application that I just finished,
>let me explain what it is suppose to do. The script changes the startup
>disk from one drive to another, then I typed the code that makes the Mac
>restart, then after it restarts, I made it so that the drive that was the
>startup disk is now initialized. When I ran the script, the AppleScript
>skipped the restart command, is there a way that i can make AppleScript run
>the whole script without skipping the restart code, heres my code:
>
>set startup disk to file "Primary:" using file "secondary:System
>Folder:Control Panels:Startup Disk"
>
>tell application "Finder"
>activate
>restart
>end tell
>
>tell application "Finder"
>activate
>select startup disk
>open selection
>select folder "Utilities" of startup disk
>open selection
>select file "Drive Setup" of folder "Utilities" of startup disk
>open selection
>close container window of folder "Utilities" of startup disk
>MoveMouse {26, 138}
>DoDoubleClick
>MoveMouse {242, 252}
>DoDoubleClick
>DoDoubleClick
>Quit application "Drive Setup"
>end tell
>
>This is my code, I used the following extensions, Set Startup Disk, and
>Cursor OSAX.
>Thank you.
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