Re: Time Delay with AppleScript
Re: Time Delay with AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Time Delay with AppleScript
- From: Greg Strange <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 12:09:59 -0500
on 5/17/01 8:19 AM, Steve Suranie at email@hidden wrote:
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Hi folks:
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I tried using the timeout command
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with timeout of 300 seconds
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stuff
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end timeout
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but it didn't seem to have any affect. Any help or clues?
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Have you tried doing:
considering application responses
tell app "Finder" to copy theFile to the desktop
end considering
Usually that gives me the exact moment when something is finished. OF
course, I don't know exactly what you are trying to do so this may be moot.
Greg Strange
--
I think I'll go home and lie very still,
feigning terminal illness.
Then the neighbours will all troop over to stare,
my love, perhaps, among them.
How she'll smile while the specialists
snarl in their teeth!
She perfectly well knows what ails me.
-Egyptian Love Poem