Re: Timeout Not Working As Expected
Re: Timeout Not Working As Expected
- Subject: Re: Timeout Not Working As Expected
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 11:18:01 -0700
> On Mar 19, 2015, at 2:42 PM, S. J. Cunningham <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Mar 18, 2015, at 7:05 PM, Shane Stanley wrote:
>
>> On 19 Mar 2015, at 6:06 am, S. J. Cunningham <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> Firefox doesn't support Applescript but I discovered that
>>>
>>> tell application "Firefox" to open location "http://www.yahoo.com";
>>>
>>> works
>>
>> "open location" is part of Standard Additions, and will try to open the URL in your chosen browser. So you don't need the "tell" statement (and you won't find it in a browser's scripting dictionary).
>
> I'm sure you are right but riddle me this:
>
> open location "imacros://run/?m=LastPostPreviewClip.iim"
>
> --> An error of type -10814 has occurred
>
> but
>
> tell application "Firefox" to open location"imacros://run/?m=LastPostPreviewClip.iim"
>
> Works fine.
>
> I'm guessing "imacros://" isn't recognized as a url by Applescript but is by Firefox. "http://"; url's work as you describe. Thankfully the tell statement works or I'd be up the creek.
Essentially, yes. A plain “open location” command sends the resulting Apple event to whatever application is registered as the default application for that URL scheme, such as Safari for “http”, Mail for “mailto”, Finder for “ftp”, etc. (These are all configurable.) Using an explicit “tell” routes the event directly to that application, as in telling Firefox to open an “http” URL, when it would otherwise have gone to Safari.
So, the problem isn’t exactly that “imacros://…” isn’t recognized as a URL, it’s that no application registered itself as being able to handle it, so the system had no idea where to route it. By adding the “tell”, you’re bypassing the system default (or lack thereof).
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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