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Display dialog and select button after so long
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Display dialog and select button after so long


  • Subject: Display dialog and select button after so long
  • From: "Ball, Dan" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:38:48 -0400
  • Acceptlanguage: en-US
  • Thread-topic: Display dialog and select button after so long

I have to be thinking to hard.....please help!

The checkbox when you shutdown in Lion is a pain and I made a little script to go around it somewhat.  Someone who I shared it with wants it to display the dialog with the default button of shutdown and then timeout after 10 seconds and shutdown.  I know that if you use giving up after 10 it closes out and does nothing, I thought it would use the default button set and select it after 10 seconds but doesn't.  WHat am I missing?    Also is it possible to display the countdown in the display window?


tell application "Finder" to activate
tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Finder"
		display dialog "Please select your option!" & "
Will timeout in 10 seconds!" buttons {"Restart", "Shutdown", "Cancel"} default button 2 with icon 0 giving up after 10
		set the user_choice to the button returned of the result
		if the user_choice is "Restart" then
			my script_help("ScriptEditor001")
			return false
		else if the user_choice is "Shutdown" then
			my script_help2("ScriptEditor002")
			return false
		else if the user_choice is "Cancel" then
			return false
		end if
	end tell
end tell

-- Restart button

on script_help(this_anchor)
	tell application "Finder" to activate
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "Finder"
			click menu item "Restart…" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Apple" of menu bar 1
		end tell
	end tell
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "loginwindow"
			activate
			click checkbox 1 of window 1
			click button "Restart" of window 1
		end tell
	end tell
end script_help

-- Shutdown Button

on script_help2(this_anchor)
	tell application "Finder" to activate
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "Finder"
			click menu item "Shut Down…" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Apple" of menu bar 1
		end tell
	end tell
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "loginwindow"
			activate
			click checkbox 1 of window 1
			click button "Shut Down" of window 1
		end tell
	end tell
end script_help2 _______________________________________________
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