Re: on blocking target applications' GUIs (was Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
Re: on blocking target applications' GUIs (was Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
- Subject: Re: on blocking target applications' GUIs (was Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:37:09 -0800
On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
Actually there are some apps with their own script menus that work
this way when a script is being run by the application - i.e. from
its script menu.
That's exactly what I meant earlier. By default, applications that run
scripts don't respond to user input while the script is running. They
have to go out of their way to add code to make it responsive.
This is one reason I think nearly all applications should have a
Script menu. So that users are inclined to run the script from within
the application, and it will naturally prevent them from interacting
with that application while the script is running. This also gives the
user a predictable way to stop the script, instead of having to bring
an applet to the front to stop it.
--
Chris Page
The other, other AppleScript Chris
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