Re: Obnoxious Script Editor 2
Re: Obnoxious Script Editor 2
- Subject: Re: Obnoxious Script Editor 2
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 19:28:08 +0100
At 21:44 -0500 UTC, on 2003-11-01, Rob Jorgensen wrote:
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Howdy,
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The following script, when saved as a stay open application, opens
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the dictionary of the frontmost application in Script Editor 2.
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During my tests, if I reopen the applet (click the script's icon in
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the dock while the script is running), Script Editor, which is
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already running, becomes visible but not active, blocking the
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frontmost application that is still active according to the menus.
I think this is a longstanding Aqua WindowManager issue. It happens all the
time when KeyChain aks for a passphrase to unlock it, or when Disk Copy asks
for a passphrase to mount an encrypted image. (Both also cases where
inter-application communication is going on I think - like the SE2 issue you
note.) These are very reproducable, but I've seen it in all sorts of other
apps (without me scripting them) where it sometimes happens, sometimes not.
It even happens when you cycle through open windows in the Finder (with Cmd-`
or Cmd-Shift`) - one of the 'items' in the cycle is something invisible...
I have the feeling it stems from OS X's concept of having no modal windows,
which has some implementation problems and/or conflicts with certain other
concepts. (like a simple tell app "x" to activate ;))
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <
http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
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