Re: Where's My Dialog?
Re: Where's My Dialog?
- Subject: Re: Where's My Dialog?
- From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:34:26 -0500
On 22/02/2010, at 18:56 , Marconi wrote:
> At 7:02 AM -0700 2/22/10, Robert Poland sent email regarding Re: Where's My Dialog?:
>> Marconi,
>>
>> try something like this;
>>
>> tell application "System Events"
>> activate
>> beep
>> display dialog "No selection was made." buttons "OK" default button 1 giving up after 4
>> end tell
>>
>> The call to System Events puts the dialog in the front.
>>
>
> That helps if I happen to be there. Often I am away and when I return, the dialog is nowhere to be seen, obscured by who knows what window(s).
>
> Is there a way to specify that a dialog float above other windows?
>
Marconi,
Most of the answers you got were related to the question as seen by someone who is going to be using an AppleScript to finish a task.
What I mean is, most of the time dialogs are notes along the way and not the end product.
Mainly because they are not really good as end products.
In your case, you do not want an AppleScript dialog, you want a notification that would stay on the screen visible enough to call your attention.
The same way you did not want to play a sound, you wanted a sound signal that would catch your attention and play for a while if necessary.
Well, thinking about that, I believe that the best way for you to display your message it is not via a dialog, it would be via a document that would have a large window displaying the text you would like to see.
As far as your problem goes, once this is up in the screen the script can quit .
I think play sound is a great tool for your sound signal.
Now instead of using a dialog, may I suggest you open the preferences of TextEdit and set the width of the window size of the new document to 200 and the height to 70. You can play around with this numbers.
Instead of the dialog, why not use the script below:
<script>
tell application "TextEdit"
activate
set mnwaf to make new document at front
tell mnwaf
set its text to "Check your hosts.
One or more have dropped off the network!"
set font of its text to "Helvetica Bold"
set size of its text to 64
end tell
end tell
</script>
I think this would make more sense.
Deivy Petrescu
email@hidden
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