Re: making a script wait until a task finishes before proceeding
Re: making a script wait until a task finishes before proceeding
- Subject: Re: making a script wait until a task finishes before proceeding
- From: "William M. Smith" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 19:52:53 -0500
Hi Matt!
You can use the "busy status of (info for file...)" to get a boolean "true"
or "false" to have your script check and see if DropStuff is still active.
Put this in a repeat loop and you should have what you're looking for.
Likewise, you could do this for the file you are creating as well.
Hope this helps! bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Hoyle" <email@hidden>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 6:15 PM
Subject: making a script wait until a task finishes before proceeding
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I know that I should be able to figure this out, but I'm having a hard
time.
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I've written a simple backup script for use on my PowerBook. It uses
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DropStuff to stuff a group of aliases in a folder and then renames
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the archive with a name of the form "MM_DD_YYYY.sit".
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That part of the script works ok, but I have some other statements
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after that section which I want to run ONLY after DropStuff finishes.
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I am currently unable to get the script to wait until the archiving
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completes before proceeding.
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Here's a snippet:
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tell application "Finder"
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activate
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--
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with timeout of 600 seconds
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--compress folder of aliases using DropStuff
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select folder . . .
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set editorApp to application file id "DStf"
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open selection using editorApp
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end timeout
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--tell script to wait for 10 minutes while DropStuff creates archive
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--tell me to sleep for 600
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--this line creates date string of form MM_DD_YYYY
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set the_date_slug to my format_date_using(the current date,
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"_", {"MM", "DD", "YYYY"})
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--now rename backup archive with label of that form
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select item . . .
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set name of selection to the_date_slug & ".sea"
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end tell
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(other statements)
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Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Here's my environment:
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OS: 9.2.2
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AppleScript: 1.8.3
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Carbon: 1.6.0
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Thanks in advance,
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Matt Hoyle
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