Re: iTunes and AppleScript
Re: iTunes and AppleScript
- Subject: Re: iTunes and AppleScript
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:00:24 -0700
- Thread-topic: iTunes and AppleScript
On or about 8/24/06 7:06 PM, thus spake "John Stiles"
<email@hidden>:
>
> On Aug 24, 2006, at 6:58 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>
>> On or about 8/24/06 6:42 PM, thus spake "John Stiles"
>> <email@hidden>:
>>
>>> there are a host of AppleScript features which you don't have
>>> direct access to
>>> via NSAppleScript
>>
>> Really? Since NSAppleScript simply compiles (if necessary) and
>> executes the
>> very same AppleScript code you might run in (say) the Script
>> Editor, and
>> since AppleScript is a way of constructing and sending Apple
>> events, I'm
>> hard pressed to imagine to what you might be referring. Well, I can
>> think of
>> some things you *might* be referring to, but they have nothing to
>> do with
>> the problem you're describing. Still, I'd sure be interested in an
>> example
>> of what you mean. m.
>
> Well, for instance, AESendMessage has an "AESendMode" parameter that
> looks useful on the surface‹from reading the docs, it looks like I
> can ask AppleEvents to queue up any replies instead of blocking until
> the reply comes in. I don't know how one would do this with an
> NSAppleScript.
Well, in this particular case, try putting the "with timeout" call *inside*
the tell block addressing iTunes and see if that helps. m.
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