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Re: it's late in the afternoon.. but
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Re: it's late in the afternoon.. but


  • Subject: Re: it's late in the afternoon.. but
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:47:36 +0100

Wayne Melrose wrote:

why can't I get this to work ..

run script "
on run theScript
     theScript's displayDialog()
end run

" with parameters {me}

'run script' is passing a list as the run handler's single parameter, so to get the first item of that list use:


on run args
    set theScript to item 1 of args
     theScript's displayDialog()
end run

or:

on run {theScript} -- note use of braces [1]
     theScript's displayDialog()
end run


I can already see what some of you are going to say .. the big "why"
question again..

Executing a copy of the main script is a valid technique for use in applets where the script has non-local state which you don't want retained when the applet quits (either because it's sensitive information or because AS's cheeseball interpreter barfs when trying to serialise it).


HTH

has

[1] See the discussion of parameter patterns at <http:// developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/ AppleScriptLangGuide/AppleScript.df.html>

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