Apple

On 2009-06-24, at 21:32:18, Chris Page wrote:

On Jun 12, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Philip Aker wrote:

System Events, when called from an non-windowserver process like osascript has to be jacked up to a windowserver level.

You will get a “No user interaction allowed. (-1713)” error if you attempt to display UI in osascript, because it doesn’t have UI, but if the script tells System Events to do so it should always work. i.e., as far as I am aware, System Events won’t return −1713 in response to “display alert” or “display dialog” (etc.) no matter which process sends the Apple event.

Technical point realized. I actually have jacked up osascript to have an application menu in the menu bar from one of my components and confounded that with System Events being run from osascript. It just happened that when constructing the script, the dialog was hidden behind several layers of windows and I wanted to make sure he saw the dialog and knew that it wasn't a security issue.

(It will return an error if the event is sent via EPPC, however.)

I'm only vaguely aware of EPPC and restrictions it might have compared to "normal" scripting. Is it that as a rule that no user interaction commands be used, or could one, for example, ask the Finder on the target machine to display the dialog instead of System Events.

set ppname to missing value

set rslt to missing value

tell application "System Events"

set frapps to get name of every application process whose frontmost is true

set my ppname to item 1 of frapps

activate

display dialog "Boston - nuttin' like drivin' 'roun' in coicles."

set my rslt to POSIX path of every file of desktop folder whose visible is true

end tell

tell application ppname to activate

rslt

Philip Aker
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References:
	>Mac OS X 10.4: using osascript to interact with users (From: Aaron Wyatt <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Mac OS X 10.4: using osascript to interact with users (From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Mac OS X 10.4: using osascript to interact with users (From: Aaron Wyatt <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Mac OS X 10.4: using osascript to interact with users (From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Mac OS X 10.4: using osascript to interact with users (From: Chris Page <email@hidden>)