site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com osascript<<EOF tell application "Finder" activate display dialog "Hello world !" end tell tell application "Installer" activate end tell EOF But it's ugly, from the point of view of the user... Any other idea ? François Hi Stéphane, On 8/11/08 2:17 PM, "Stéphane Sudre" <email@hidden> wrote:

On Aug 11, 2008, at 10:31 PM, Luke Bellandi wrote:

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Hi,

I¹ve got a preflight script that executes AppleScript via osascript. This works in Mac OS X v10.4, but not in 10.5.4

An example is:

osascript<<EOF tell application "Installer" activate display dialog "Hello World" end tell EOF

This doesn¹t work ‹ When run from Terminal.app, I get the failure message:

49:77: execution error: Installer got an error: "Hello World" doesn¹t understand the display dialog message. (-1708)

But if I change the script to ³tell² a different application (I¹ve tried Finder, Safari, Audio MIDI Setup) -- they all respond appropriately and show the dialog. Why doesn¹t the Installer do it in 10.5? This worked in 10.4 (and I believe even in earlier versions of 10.5.4 ‹ could this have broken in the 10.5.3 or 10.5.4 update)?

Stupid idea:

Could it be related to the security fix for the AppleScript flaw?

If it's the case, then the issue should also happen on a 10.4.11 OS fully patched.

Cheers, Luke _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... I am having the same problem. I think it is new to 10.5.4, or even to a recent security update. I haven't tried with older versions of older versions of 10.5, but from googling the problem, it is only very recent... Also, I think it is specific to the Installer app -- otherwise, why would it work when "tell"-ing to a different application ? I haven't found a solution yet, except activating another application another application, displaying the dialog, and activating Installer again, like this: Ah -- it's not related to the security patch, but your suggestion led me to find out that on Leopard osascript disallows user interaction when run from a command-line tool. That's apparantly a behavior change from Tiger. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com