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Re: making an AS applet into a background app?
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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:

>> Now, we all know AppleScript applets present dialogs when things go
>> wrong and what-not. And there is nothing you can do to stop that, short of
>> rewriting the code that runs your applet - and last time I checked, Apple
>> wasn't open-sourcing AppleScript.
>
> No, I don't think Apple is open sourcing AppleScript but I do believe they
> do make information available for creating Applet Shells that allow
> developers to create applets that do behave quite differently from the
> standard Applet. This is a potential that's been there but has been
> unexploited since AppleScript's first introduction.

The question is: can you guarantee that an applet will never display a
dialog?

JR


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