Re: Thanks and another question
Re: Thanks and another question
- Subject: Re: Thanks and another question
- From: Michael Ellis <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 00:06:21 -0400
Thanks to everyone who helped with my questions about calling functions
by object reference and idle handlers. Your input was invaluable.
My next question is this:
"Is it possible for two scripts, running independently, to message the
same application?"
It would seem that the answer is no. When I try this, the first script
works great. When I spawn the second script, I get an error (-2709)
saying that the second script could not get the application's event
dictionary.
Now I expect that this would occur if the first script never leaves a
"tell" segment. For example:
If script #1 says:
tell application "myApp"
... do lots of work ...
end tell
and script #2 comes along while #1 is still inside the "tell application
"myApp"" block, I would expect to get the above error. However, script
#1 does not stay inside of the "tell" block the whole time. I would
expect that script #2 would eventually be able to access the dictionary
for "myApp" as soon as script #1 left the "tell" block.
Is this an incorrect assumption? Does script #2 have to be able to
access the application's event dictionary on the first attempt?
Thanks for any suggestions...
-Mike Ellis
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