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: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 12:55:18 -0700
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>>>The question is: can you guarantee that an applet will never display a
dialog?
Yes, that is the question. I don't know. But, I do know that there is the
potential for a developer to modify or replace the standard AppleScript
applet with a shell. As far as I know no one has made applet shells
available and if they were available I don't know if they would be able to
guarantee they would never display a dialog. And if they could guarantee
that, I don't know what a guarantee like that would mean... Double your
money back?
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>>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.
Actually this is what I was referring to, that it MAY be possible to
prevent an applet from displaying dialogs by rewriting the applet shell.
This is way beyond the realm of ordinary AppleScripter. We really must
wait and hope for a developer to make those tools available or start
learning C and do it ourselves.
ES