Re: AppleScripts that I have come to love no longer work
Re: AppleScripts that I have come to love no longer work
- Subject: Re: AppleScripts that I have come to love no longer work
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:37:48 +1100
On 24 Feb 2014, at 8:50 pm, koenig.yvan <email@hidden> wrote:
> Your version doesn't use « tell me to » in front of the display dialog instructions embedded in the tell application "Finder" block.
>
> At this time I don't know why it was introduced in the versions delivered with 10.4.
> It guess that it was not for the « call to OSAX functions » problem introduced with 10.6.
> Maybe it was just to put the dialogs at front.
The admonition to keep addition calls outside app tell blocks doesn't apply to commands like display dialog. In fact the release notes for 10.6, which is where the changes were introduced, say: "Some scripting addition commands, such as display dialog, must be handled within the target process to operate correctly".
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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
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