Re: prevent user input question
Re: prevent user input question
- Subject: Re: prevent user input question
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:33:43 -0700
On 2007-02-11, at 09:51, Oakley Masten wrote:
Under what circumstances are you running the script?
The process in question opens, modifies, prints and then saves a
folder of Excel files. It uses GUI scripting and therefor is
susceptible to errors if a user inputs anything by keyboard or
mouse. So can I suspend input until the script finishes? If so how?
Also, how do I post a dialog that tells the user that they must
wait until the process is finished. And what do I do if the process
hangs up and never finishes? Is there a "time limit" parameter for
my lock out?
So many questions !!!!
IMO, Luther's described a viable method. You can probably block input
by using a 'do shell script' which calls osascript to run your script
(run it via System Events). But I think that neither of these will
account for your user switching to Excel and typing like a mad fool
while the script is running…
Philip Aker
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