Re: Yosemite and activate failures
Re: Yosemite and activate failures
- Subject: Re: Yosemite and activate failures
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:06:24 -0700
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That explanation — and workaround — doesn’t sound right to me. I’m going to check around a bit more.
—Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
> On Mar 11, 2015, at 1:21 AM, Jörgen Stahle <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I have received the answer below from Apple to my bug report on this issue. To me the suggested change of the script seems like a workaround.
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> (The suggested change for my original example in the bug report is the line
> tell application "Finder" to get the front window)
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> If this changed behavour in Applescript is not a bug, It would be interesting to have a rational explanation of the change...
>
> The answer from Apple :
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> ”This issue behaves as intended based on the following:
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> Each ‘tell’ sends an AppleEvent, asynchronously, and when Finder or our own app receive that event they do a SetFrontProcess() on themselves. So, depending on which order they actually get received and handled, either Finder or the current app could get be in front.
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> If you change the script so that it has to get something back from Finder, thus insuring that Finder has finished processing the activate event, with something like this
>
> set theList to {"a", "b", "c"}
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> tell application "Finder" to activate
> tell application "Finder" to get the front window
>
> tell me
> activate
> choose from list theList
> end tell
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> then I don’t see Finder ever be behind the front app.
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> Please update your bug report to let us know if this is still an issue for you.”
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>> 17 jan 2015 kl. 15:01 skrev Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>:
>>
>>> 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”?
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