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Re: bounce script icon in dock
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Re: bounce script icon in dock


  • Subject: Re: bounce script icon in dock
  • From: Håvard Graudo <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:38:35 +0200

>At 10:26p +0200 09/24/2003, Hevard Graudo didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>In a stayopen script I would like to display a dialog in the background and get the users attention by bouncing the script icon in the dock.
>>
>>How do I start the bouncing?

At 14:38 -0700 24-09-03, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>The bounce should automatically occur when your dialog is displayed.
>If your dialog is going to the frontmost app, then do something like
>
> tell me to display dialog
>
>to ensure that it stays within yours and thus triggers the bounce.


That was what I thougt, but I cannot get it to work. In OS9 the app menu bar flashes on this:

tell app "Finder" to activate
tell me to display dialog "hi"

However in os X there is no bounce if i run it as an application. If I run the code within Script Debugger, Finder activates and SD's icon bounces. But as a standalone application the dialog is silently displayed in the background without any bounces. (tried on OS 10.2.6 and 10.2.8).

I would like to avoid interrupting the user by forcing the dialog to the front, but still need to get hir attention.

Hevard
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