Re: Display dialog frontmost?
Re: Display dialog frontmost?
- Subject: Re: Display dialog frontmost?
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:51:12 +1000
On 13/9/02 11:22 AM +1000, bill fancher, email@hidden, wrote:
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I'll be the judge of what constitutes "farting around" here in my
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little kingdom. I don't want some presumptuous software deciding for me.
Then don't run an OS.
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There's little more irritating than having a dialog shoved in your face
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when you're doing something MORE IMPORTANT (I'll be the judge of that
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too, thank you.)
But you may well be a bad judge. For example, if the script is doing
something that also involves the application you have frontmost, and you
decide to ignore the bouncing icon, you could end up doing something that
breaks the script. You may consider that your right, but the script's ceding
it to you is not very helpful.
The reality is that when a script is running, you have potentially two
entities telling the computer what to do at the same time. Sometimes common
sense matters more than manners.
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display dialog "Emergency! The world is ending today!" giving up after
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weeks
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That should take care of the timeouts.
It will do no such thing...
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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