Re: Display dialog + compiled scripts
Re: Display dialog + compiled scripts
- Subject: Re: Display dialog + compiled scripts
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:32:44 -0400
On Wednesday, July 31, 2002, at 10:49 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
Or, as others have [almost] said:
tell current application to display dialog "etc."
will always work. (In this context 'frontmost application does _not_
work,
but 'current application' does.)
As it happens, that's precisely how OneClick did it.
--
Paul Berkowitz
I found this to be news. I've always used the verbose (path to frontmost
application as text). But I'm not sure that the 'current application' is
what it appears to be.
I put these different techniques after a finder Try this.
tell application "Finder"
activate
tell application (path to the frontmost application as text)
display dialog (path to the frontmost application as text)
end tell
end tell
--> Finder displays the dialog.
tell application "Finder"
activate
tell current application
display dialog (path to the frontmost application as text)
end tell
end tell
-->Script editor bounces it's icon displays the dialog when activated.
--And just what did John Delacouer mean when he mysteriously spoke?
--tell me to set dd to (display dialog.....)
--does the same and is more useful
tell me to set dd to (display dialog (path to the frontmost application
as text))
tell application "Finder"
activate
dd
end tell
-->Script editor activates and displays the dialog then retreats to the
background!
Well, I don't know about more useful. But that is cool! I'm scratching
my head over how exactly he's rolled that up...
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