#App switching with AS
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I'm having a few Applescript problems that are driving me up the wall. I'm
using Applescript 1.1 with the scriptable Finder on System 7 Pro on a Quadra
800, and my problems seem to occur when I switch between scriptable
applications.
I've written a script that activates Filemaker Pro at a certain point, then
executes a DoScript command that activates a Filemaker script which imports
some records into a master database. The problem occurs when I open the
database into which I am importing. I use a Quickeys PlaybyName command to
open the Filemaker database using the password assigned to it. The script
successfully opens the Filemaker database, but once it is open the script
seems to lag there and not execute the Filemaker script as it is supposed to.
The only way to re-activate the script is to manually switch over to
Applescript through the application menu, or by clicking on the actual
script's window, if it is open. Only then does the script continue to run.
I've had this problem with a number of other scripts, where a scripts lags
until a statement either times out, or I re-activate Applescript. I'd like to
know if this is an Applescript design flaw, or a problem with the scripts
that I'm writing.
Mark
Mark:
I had a similar problem. I wrote an AS application to drive through a folder
full of MS Word docs, opening each one in turn and firing off a QK Sequence
Shortcut in Word to save the file as text. Problem was that it "hung" in Word
after the Save As… operation and never returned to my AS applicaion. I got
around it by creating a Shortcut to choose my AppleScript application from the
Application menu, and then inserted this Shortcut as the last one in the Save
As… Sequence to "goose" my AS application into action.
Seems awfully inelegant…but it works.
Jeff Fischer
The Fischer Group