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Re: Applescript bugs in Panther
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Re: Applescript bugs in Panther


  • Subject: Re: Applescript bugs in Panther
  • From: Simon Topliss <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:07:28 +0100

Hi Dave,

On 22/10/03 4:18 pm, "Dave MacLachlan" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Has anybody else noticed that Panther doesn't seem to support "with
> timeout" statements the way that previous versions of Applescript have?
>
> If I try the following:
>
> Try
> With timeout of 2 seconds
> Tell application "Terminal"
> Display dialog "What is your name?"
> End
> End
> On error
> Beep
> End
>
> On Jaguar, it will show the dialog, wait two seconds, and then beep On
> Panther, it will show the dialog, wait two seconds, and then continue
> without hitting the error block. There doesn't appear to be a way of
> getting it to report an error.

Are you by any chance using Script Debugger 3.0.6? I had similar problems
with (coincidently!) Illustrator 10 errors not being returned in Panther.

It's fixed in a future release of SD. The script also runs fine for me in
Script Editor 2, hitting the error block.

Simon
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