Re: Yosemite and activate failures
Re: Yosemite and activate failures
- Subject: Re: Yosemite and activate failures
- From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 09:01:35 -0500
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> On Jan 16, 2015, at 22:40 , Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 17 Jan 2015, at 10:18 am, Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> However, I would expect such behavior only inside a tell block.
>
> That's precisely where the problem is happening.
Not really
>
>> By the way, even inside a tell block, there are some instances that the script have to be told to hold (delay ).
>> When telling Safari to open an URL that is always the delay command.
>> Inside a tell block.
>
> Yes, that's the 1%. But it's generally only cases like opening a URL, where the definition of when an action is complete is hard to define, and in the case of commands that take a long time.
>>
>> To my point of view is it working as expected.
>
> You have a funny view of the world, if I may say so. Here's a simple classic script:
I’ve been told that many times… :-)
>
> tell application "Whatever"
> activate
> display dialog "Hello"
> end tell
>
> For the past 20-odd years, you could guarantee that that dialog would be presented by an active "Whatever". As of Yosemite, you can't. How can changed behavior like that be "as expected”?
Well, Shane, things change. And yes, it is the expected behavior.
Here, lets try to write the script above using JSA:
<script JSA>
finder=Application('Finder')
finder.activate()
finder.displayDialog('Hello’)
</script>
—>Error -1708: Message not understood.
<script JSA>
sa=Application.currentApplication()
sa.includeStandardAdditions=true
finder=Application('Finder')
finder.activate()
sa.displayDialog('Hello')
</script>
No error.
It has been changed for a while and AS was being lenient by accepting errors without stopping the script.
Display dialog is a SA command.
May be JSA introduce more stringent rules.
But you were not using the tell app block when using display dialog.
If you had written something as
tell app finder
set m to make new file at someplace
set name of m to something
end
and you’ve had an error can’t set name of m to something because m does not exist, this is a bug.
>
> --
> Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
> <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
>
but I do ave a funny view of the world.
Deivy Petrescu
email@hidden
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