Another reason may be that in older versions of applescript displpay dialog and 'set clipboard' and maybe a few other commands only worked when the target app was in front. I have come across activates that are hangovers from these days in scripts whose history goes way back.
-- Barry Wainwright <http://www.barryw.net> "People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history." -- George W. Bush, Jr. > From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 09:05:27 -0700 > To: Entourage Mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bizarre Entourage X Behavior > > 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/> -- 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/>
