Re: delay doesn't work when applet is not frontmost
Re: delay doesn't work when applet is not frontmost
- Subject: Re: delay doesn't work when applet is not frontmost
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 10:27:50 -0500
How does this crap make it through QA?
Sent from my iPad. Please pardon typos.
On Mar 4, 2015, at 7:23 PM, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 5 Mar 2015, at 11:06 am, Stockly, Ed <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> If I save this script as an applet, the delay 20 command seems to be
>> ignored as soon as the script is no longer frontmost.
>>
>> If you remove the finder activate command, the delay works, but if you
>> bring another app to the front, it stops delaying and goes on with the
>> script.
>>
>> Can anyone repeat see this? Is it new?
>
> It's a Yosemite thing, and it's worse than that -- just moving the mouse is enough to end all delays. You don't generally notice it in editors because they usually run scripts on a background thread, and the problem only happens on the main thread. It was discussed here some time back.
>
> A workaround is to add this to your scripts:
>
> on delay delayTime
> set theRepeat to delayTime * 10 div 1
> repeat theRepeat times
> do shell script "sleep 0.1"
> end repeat
> end delay
>
>
> --
> Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
> <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
>
>
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