Re: AppleScript sets busy cursor even when displaying alert
Re: AppleScript sets busy cursor even when displaying alert
- Subject: Re: AppleScript sets busy cursor even when displaying alert
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 08:44:48 -0500
I've seen that, too, so I did two experiments. In 10.5.3, both
compiled as an application bundle ...
on run -- Show in Dock = true
activate me
tell me to display alert "xxxx" message "yyyy" -- busy
--
tell application "Finder"
activate
display alert "xxxx" message "yyyy" -- pointer
end tell
--
tell application "Mail"
activate
display alert "xxxx" message "yyyy" -- pointer
end tell
end run
on run -- Show in Dock = false
activate me
tell me to display alert "xxxx" message "yyyy" -- pointer
--
tell application "Finder"
activate
display alert "xxxx" message "yyyy" -- pointer
end tell
--
tell application "Mail"
activate
display alert "xxxx" message "yyyy" -- pointer
end tell
end run
I also tried a few more variants of this.
"tell me to display ..." and (Show in Dock = true) are both necessary.
Hope this helps someone decipher the problem.
On Jun 3, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Brett Powley wrote:
It seems that AppleScript sets a busy cursor when an application is
launched, even when it's asked to display an alert.
For example, if I write a simple script like:
set reply to display alert "Do you want to see a busy cursor?"
buttons {"No", "Never"}
then save it as an "Application Bundle" and launch it, it displays
an alert with a busy cursor rather than an arrow cursor, and then
the user has to click on a button with the busy cursor.
Is this intended behaviour? Is there a workaround?
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