Re: unresponsive apps and applescript
Re: unresponsive apps and applescript
- Subject: Re: unresponsive apps and applescript
- From: Dee Dee Sommers <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:14:04 -0400
Thank you, Kaydell!
I really appreciate your help!
I will report back on my progress!
Dee Dee
On Jun 26, 2013, at 5:25 PM, Kaydell Leavitt wrote:
> Hi Dee Dee,
>
> I think that this *is* an interesting question.
>
> First of all, attached is an Objective-C app what will become frozen when you choose "Freeze" from the "File" menu, in case you still need to test for this sort of thing.
>
> @Ron Hunsinger suggested a solution of aborting the operation that the AppleScript is doing and starting it over. That might work. I want to add than in database work, you start a transaction to a call to something like:
>
> startTransaction();
> try {
> // do a bunch of database stuff here.
> } on error {
> rollback();
> } finally {
> commit();
> }
>
> Of course the above code isn't AppleScript, but I just wanted to convey the idea of having a transaction that if there's an error during the transaction, the data isn't changed, all of the changes are rolled back.
>
> Having transactions with commit and rollbck keeps your data in a consistent state when there is an error.
>
> -- Kaydell
>
> <Freeze.app.zip>
>
>
> On Jun 26, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Dee Dee Sommers <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Thanks! Note to self: Try a search before asking the list. doh.
>> Thank you all the same.
>> :)
>>
>>
>> On Jun 25, 2013, at 4:32 PM, Kaydell Leavitt wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dee Dee,
>>>
>>> I googled for "mac os x force quit applescript" and found this link:
>>>
>>> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3766077?start=0&tstart=0
>>>
>>> -- Kaydell
>>>
>>> On Jun 25, 2013, at 2:24 PM, Dee Dee Sommers <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible, using Applescript, to determine if an application has stopped responding and if so, to force-quit that app?
>>>>
>>>> OS 10.8.4
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>> Dee Dee
>>>>
>>
>>
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