Re: making an AS applet into a background app?
Re: making an AS applet into a background app?
- Subject: Re: making an AS applet into a background app?
- From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 22:03:19 -0500
on 5/3/2001 2:52 PM, email@hidden at email@hidden wrote:
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> Now, we all know AppleScript applets present dialogs when things go
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> wrong and what-not. And there is nothing you can do to stop that, short of
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> rewriting the code that runs your applet - and last time I checked, Apple
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> wasn't open-sourcing AppleScript.
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No, I don't think Apple is open sourcing AppleScript but I do believe they
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do make information available for creating Applet Shells that allow
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developers to create applets that do behave quite differently from the
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standard Applet. This is a potential that's been there but has been
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unexploited since AppleScript's first introduction.
The question is: can you guarantee that an applet will never display a
dialog?
JR