Re: script differences ?
Re: script differences ?
- Subject: Re: script differences ?
- From: Steve Mills <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:30:15 -0500
On Oct 11, 2015, at 22:00:17, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Actually, I am saying you shouldn't.
>
> Suppose you have a script like this:
>
> tell application "SystemUIServer"
> display dialog "Comment allez-vous?" default answer "Très bon"
> end tell
>
> The dialog appears frontmost, as you expect. But before you answer, you want to check something on the Web page you have open -- did you just win a million euros? -- so you click in it to scroll down. And once you have made an application window active like that, although you can still see the dialog, there is no way you can enter a new answer -- you can only click a button. Très mal.
Right. And there's no way to command-tab back to it. You have to remember which key equiv you've set up to do the Mission Control "all windows" thing. Also, once you use the dialog as presented in SystemUIServer, you're left in a weird state where none of the current app's windows are frontmost any more. Hence, it's better to target an actual app for such commands.
--
Steve Mills
Drummer, Mac geek
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