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Re: prevent user input question


  • Subject: Re: prevent user input question
  • From: Ed Stockly <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 13:45:13 -0700



>>>PGUI 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.



It doesn't prevent user input, but, it's very possible that you can avoid relying on the GUI by scripting each of those functions directly using AppleScript.

The process in question opens, modifies, prints and then saves a folder of Excel files. 

This list is a good place to get advice on doing all of that with AppleScript and Excel.

That said, on OS 9 Prefab Player had a feature that would disable user input and that was pretty handy when scripting the GUI or using AppleScript directly.

I just don't think there is anything like that in OS X, but if there was, I'd use it!.

ES
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