Re: Apple event timeout on display dialog
Re: Apple event timeout on display dialog
- Subject: Re: Apple event timeout on display dialog
- From: Hugh Dixon <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:37:41 +0100
On 15/10/01 2:05 pm, Chad Chelius of email@hidden wrote in whole
or in part:
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I have a script that when finished performing the necessary operations it
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displays a dialog in the finder with a message for the user. The problem I
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have run into is that if the user doesn't click OK in a reasonable amount of
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time, I get an Apple Event Timed out error. Is there any way for that
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dialog to display indefinitely so that I don't get the timeout?
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Thanks in advance.
If there's nothing else the script needs to do, you can use the "giving up
after" paramater of Display Dialog.
Display Dialog "I've finished!" giving up after 5.
HTH
Hugh
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