display dialog and screen saver bug?
display dialog and screen saver bug?
- Subject: display dialog and screen saver bug?
- From: James Reynolds <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:47:25 -0700
In Mac OS X, I am trying to run an AppleScript saved as an
application while the screensaver is on. For various reasons, I want
to display a dialog while the screensaver is on (yeah, kinda
pointless, but I want to). There are several interesting behaviors:
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).
Does anyone have an ideas what is going on here? Bug maybe?
--
Thanks:
James Reynolds
University of Utah
Student Computing Labs
email@hidden
email@hidden
801-585-9811
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