Re: display dialog and screen saver bug?
Re: display dialog and screen saver bug?
- Subject: Re: display dialog and screen saver bug?
- From: James Reynolds <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 17:27:11 -0700
At 2:47 PM -0700 2/15/02, James Reynolds wrote:
1). The "display dialog" command beeps. (I fixed this with "set
volume 0" but why is it doing this?)
2). This does not work correctly: "display dialog text giving up
after 10". After turning off the screensaver, the AppleScript
halts with an "AppleEvent timed out." dialog. It should "give up"
and continue to execute the script.
3). Placing "display dialog" in a try block catches the timeout
error. Also, I could not find any way to control how long it took
(giving up after <value> doesn't work at all). It always took 1
minute (probably the default AppleEvent timeout).
The ScriptRunner app is in front and it can't do UI. That's why it
beeps and times out.
Use "activate" to bring another app (like the Finder) to the front
and tell it to display the dialog.
That should solve all these problems.
Great! It works:
tell application "Finder"
activate
display dialog "text" giving up after 1
end tell
say "hi"
Even this worked:
tell application "test" -- this file is named test
activate
display dialog "text" giving up after 1
end tell
say "hi"
Even this worked:
tell me
activate
display dialog "text" giving up after 1
end tell
say "hi"
I tried "tell me" before but it didn't work! I don't know what is
different now...
--
Thanks,
James Reynolds
University of Utah
Student Computing Labs
email@hidden
email@hidden
801-585-9811
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