Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)
Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)
- Subject: Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:42:57 -0800
\On Dec 16, 2008, at 12:03 AM, Ed Stockly wrote:
From a script we can display a wide variety of User Interface items
in several Adobe applications, in addition to what's available from
within AppleScript. If I have a work flow that uses these elements,
I'm going to want to have all the user interface items display in
the same application. I want to avoid the time it takes to change
the frontmost app, and the distraction that may cause the user.
Perhaps I've made my question seem too general. I'm not asking "why
does it matter where UI is displayed?". I'm asking: When is it
important to your scripts to be able to tell an application, other
than the one running the script, to display a modal dialog with
scripting additions?
Applications that provide their own scripting commands for displaying
UI are entirely separate from this, if that's what you mean.
I also have applets that display all the user interface elements in
the Finder or some other app, but display error messages from within
the applet. That way if there is an error the applet icon bounces in
the dock or I can use something like...
on error
tell me to activate
display dialog ...
Right. I want to know when you *don't* want to display the dialog in
the applet.
--
Chris Page
The other, other AppleScript Chris
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