Re: tell inside a tell
Re: tell inside a tell
- Subject: Re: tell inside a tell
- From: Darwin Zins <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:17:29 -0600
Thank you, it's the 'tell me' that I think I am looking for. I didn't
realize that the display dialog "listened" to the tell, I just thought
it displayed a dialog. I noticed while running the script that
sometimes the Address Book would come to the front when a dialog was
displayed and I suppose it was because the display dialog was inside a
tell address book. I don't want the address book to come to the front,
so I will try using tell me.
Thanks again,
Darwin
PS. Not sure about why I use the "is equal to", I am just following
code that I find, but I will keep = in mind, I like it a lot better :)
zCard is not an application, nor an application object, so how can it
display dialog? You're not giving us any information, but it must be a
record you've created yourself? It works when inside a tell block to
an
application object:
tell application "Address Book"
set aCard to person 1
tell aCard
display dialog "No birthday."
end tell
end tell
-- (No problem)
But
tell application "Address Book"
set zCard to {a:1}
tell zCard
display dialog "No birthday."
end tell
end tell
--> ERROR: {a:1} doesn't understand the display dialog message.
If you really must have it inside a 'tell zCard' tell block, then just
add
tell application "Address Book"
set zCard to {a:1}
tell zCard
tell application "Address Book" to display dialog "test"
end tell
end tell
-- works fine
if Address Book is in the front (activated); or
tell me to display dialog "test"
if the script (application) or script editor is in the front, or
tell current application to display dialog "test"
if you really don't know which will be in the front.
BTW, why do people type out " is equal to " every time when " = "works
perfectly well?
--
Paul Berkowitz
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