Re: blocking user actions
Re: blocking user actions
- Subject: Re: blocking user actions
- From: Ed Stockly <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:25:03 -0800
I just dug that script up. It's no longer needed because the process
it protected executed so quickly on our new macs (new then) that the
issue went away.
I also now see why I didn't take it any further. Once the script was
up and running I had no way for it to reliably test that the script
that called it was still running. I even asked on this list way back
then but hit a dead end.
ES
On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:56 PM, Ed Stockly wrote:
I had one script that launched an applet from the finder. All the
applet did was make sure it was frontmost and display a dialog
letting the user know that a script was running and to go get a cup
of coffee. On idle every few seconds, it would activate itself if it
wasn't frontmost.
The button on the dialog was "Cancel Script".
>>>That's not too difficult to implement. You can place a
translucent (even 100% translucent) window in front of all windows,
like Dashboard does, for example.
Add a floating palette to the mix with the buttons needed to pause
or cancel the script?
When a script does ‘display dialog’ the script waits for the dialog
to be dismissed. It doesn't continue running until then.
Alternatively, you can write
ignoring application responses
display dialog "Hi!"
end
and the script will continue running while the alert is displayed.
But, if the user clicks the Cancel button, the script will never
know, because it ignored the response.
Run the dialog in a new process that would send an AppleEvent back
to the original script when the user clicked "Cancel Script".
ES=
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