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Re: prevent user input question


  • Subject: Re: prevent user input question
  • From: Dave Balderstone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:43:03 -0600


On 2-Nov-07, at 7:59 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:

On 11/2/07 9:51 AM, "Oakley Masten" <email@hidden> wrote:

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?


Don't use GUI scripting then. Use Excel AppleScripting.

GUI scripting is a poor relation to be used for unscriptable apps when
there's no alternative.

How does scripting Excel directly prevent user input while the script is executing? I have several Excel scripts I run weekly, and I'm not prevented from changing data while the script runs.
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