By way of explanation: the reason why 'activate' has found its way into some scripts designed to be run automatically from rules and schedules (and thus where Entourage may be in the background) is probably that when a scripter tests out scripts from a script editor (which is in the front when you start testing), it's often helpful or even necessary to have the targeted application (Entourage here) come to the front while executing. I guess Allen forgot to remove a couple of these commands when the scripts were complete - that's quite easy to do. 'activate' will not ever be a nuisance in scripts run manually from the Scripts menu, since by definition Entourage is in the front when you access the menu.
-- Paul Berkowitz > From: Jim Baskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 08:20:52 -0500 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bizarre Entourage X Behavior > > On 8/7/02 10:55 AM, Allen Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I'll have to remove that statement from the Strip HTML script. > > And from "Set Mail Client Category" although I don't remember if that was an > official published script on your website or cooked up on this list. That > was the one that got me :-) > > Jim > >> On or near 8/6/2002 3:35 PM, Doug Brightwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> observed: >> >>> On 8/6/02 10:34 AM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> You may have some rule that is running an AppleScript, and that script has >>>> an "activate" statement in it. Find that script and remove the "activate" >>>> statement. >>> >>> Allen... >>> >>> Thank you. Thank you. >>> >>> Indeed I do. I have a rule running one of yours, in fact! Strip HTML. >>> >>> Not being an Apple script kinda guy, I just went into the script editor and >>> deleted the line of text with the word "activate", saved and closed. >>> >>> Is that all there is to it? No esoteric gotchas? Cool! >>> >>> My apologies for casting aspersions upon the blameless. I hereby remove one >>> debit from the Microsoft column. :-) >>> >>> Thanks again for your help. >>> >>> Doug >>> >>> >>> ------------------------ >>> Doug Brightwell >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> ------------------------ >>> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
