Re: Display dialog frontmost?
Re: Display dialog frontmost?
- Subject: Re: Display dialog frontmost?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:23:21 -0700
On 9/12/02 4:11 PM, "Steven Angier" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 12/9/02 11:21 AM, "Christopher Nebel" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 01:26 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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>> If you activate a different app and then want the dd to display in
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>> front
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>> while there, then put it in the tell block to that app:
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>> tell application "Finder"
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>> activate
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>> display dialog "Boo"
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>> end tell
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> This will certainly work, but I want to point out that this sort of
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> thing is considered to be in bad taste, interface-wise. The user is
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> doing what they're doing, and it's presumptuous and rude to suddenly
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> jump in their face yammering on about how they need to choose a file
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> *right now*.
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By that logic, you could also say that it is rude for a script to activate
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another application, since that wasn't initiated by the user either.
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And it is often a necessity that the user stop farting around and that they
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do choose a file *right now*, because the AppleScript is trying to get work
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done, and whatever the user is doing at that moment is impeding that.
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Sometimes it makes perfect sense to put up a dialog over whatever
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application happens to be in front.
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It's sure a whole lot better than putting up a dialog which may be behind
the front app, timing out a minute later, and the first the user knows about
it is getting "AppleEvent timed out."
--
Paul Berkowitz
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