awake from nib: dialog or window displayed twice

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#1

Hi,

I recently build a “check for update” function.
A function is called from awake from nib from the main script. If a new version is detected on my website it generates a message that a new version is available and you can close the panel or go to the website (and the panel is also closed).

I tried a dialog, a panel and a panel attached to main window.

dialog: The dialog is always displayed twice
panel: The panel is always displayed twice
panel attached to main window: panel is displayed once, but close button activates other button (??)

Below the relevant part of the script. It all works fine apart from the displaying actions.


on awake from nib theObject
FUNC_Version()
end awake from nib

on clicked theObject
	if name of theObject is "VOpenWeb" then
		open location "http://<URL to my website>"
		close panel window "VersionMsg"
	else if name of theObject is "VClose" then
		close panel window "VersionMsg"
	end if
end clicked

on FUNC_Version()
	set InfoPath to quoted form of POSIX path of (path to me) & "Contents/Info"
	set MyVersion to do shell script "defaults read " & InfoPath & " CFBundleVersion"
	try
		set WebVersion to do shell script "/usr/bin/curl 'http://<URL to file on my website>/version.txt'"
	end try
	if WebVersion > MyVersion then
		set VersionMsg to "You have version " & MyVersion & ".
		
Version " & WebVersion & " is now available." 
		set contents of text field "VersionMsg" of window "VersionMsg" to VersionMsg
		if visible of window "VersionMsg" = false then display window "VersionMsg" --attached to window "MainWindow"
		(*display dialog VersionMsg buttons {"Get Update", "Close"}
		set choice to button returned of result
		if choice = "Get Update" then
			open location "http://<URL to my website>"
		end if*)
	end if
end FUNC_Version
#2

Do you have a second nib file which is also connected to the applescript triggering the awake from nib handler ?

BTW: There is a very comfortable way to add a “check for update” function

#3

No, I have one nib. By now it contains two windows and four panels and a modified menu.
I have 6 scripts. Five scripts use the “awake on nib” to load the shared functions from Functions.applescript. Could that be of influence?

Looks nice, but mine is for the time being simpler and also works fine (apart from the mentioned problem with the panels/dialog)

#4

Yes, every UI element which is connected to the awake from nib handler, calls it.
You could check it with e.g.


on awake from nib theObject
	log (get name of theObject)
	FUNC_Version()
end awake from nib
#5

What do you mean with “calls it”, the panel? So, if five scripts use “awake on nib” , the dialog/panel should actually be displayed five times?

Nothing is logged to /var/log/system.log

#6

Not the panel is called, the handler is called

Every UI element, which is connected to this specified script and has enabled the awake from nib handler
will call the FUNC_Version() handler.

To see the result of the log watch the console (⇧⌘R) in Xcode, not system.log

#7

The console doesn’t really help me.

However, I had the FUNC_Version() as second item in my “awake from nib” after my “my loadscripts()”. I now put it as last item/action in my “awake from nib” (after a bunch of initialisation stuff) and did some further testing. If I now attach it to the main window it does as supposed to and is only called once. As a “non attached” panel or dialog it is still called twice.

I really don’t understand what happens, but it functions now. ergo: I’m happy.

You really put a lot of time in helping others. It is well appreciated. Thanks a lot.