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Re: Application responses, Timeouts, Try statements, Activate - how do they really work?
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Re: Application responses, Timeouts, Try statements, Activate - how do they really work?


  • Subject: Re: Application responses, Timeouts, Try statements, Activate - how do they really work?
  • From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:17:33 -0800

On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:01 PM, Richard Rönnbäck wrote:

on idle
        set myGaveUp to  false
       try
           activate
           set myGaveUp to gave up of (display dialog "some text" giving up after 5)
        end try
   
    --the useful stuff goes here
   return 5
end idle

Greetings Richard,

What happens if you make this miniscule amendment to your idle handler:

tell me to activate

?

Philip Aker
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