Re: "display dialog" time out?
Re: "display dialog" time out?
- Subject: Re: "display dialog" time out?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:23:46 -0800
On 2/14/02 10:05 AM, "James Reynolds" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I have an interesting problem. I have a script that is timing out on
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this line (which happens to be the first line):
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display dialog "text" giving up after 10
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The reason it is timing out is because the screen saver is on when
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the script launches (script is saved as an application).
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Does anyone have any ideas how to get this to not timeout?
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I tried:
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with timeout of 10 seconds
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tell me
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display dialog "text" giving up after 10
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end tell
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end timeout
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But I don't think I am doing this right. Or maybe it just isn't working
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right?
In both cases, you're specifically _asking_ for it to time out after 10
seconds. If that's not what you want, what exactly do you want?
--
Paul Berkowitz
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