Continuing after ignored dialog box

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hey everybody.
Does anyone know how to make applescript go on to a new tell if there is no response to a display dialogue box after a certain amount of time?

i.e. I want an alarm to go off if there is no response to the dialogue box after 10 seconds.

Thanks in advance!
Terry

#2

Do you mean this?

display dialog "blah" giving up after 10
#3

Hi all :slight_smile:

Yes “jj”, I also think like you… then here one very simple syntaxe:

display dialog "blah" giving up after 10
if gave up of result is true then
	--do something
else
	--do something other
end if

:wink:

#4

:wink:

set dialogReply to (display dialog "Please acknowledge this dialog within 10 seconds." buttons ¬
  {"Bill", "Fred", "Aardvark"} with icon note giving up after 10)

if dialogReply's gave up then
  -- Adjust the ratio of beeps and repeats on your own machine, if necessary
  beep 41
  repeat 5 times
    display dialog "OH NO! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!" buttons ¬
      {"AAARRGHH!!"} default button 1 with icon caution ¬
      giving up after 1
    delay 1
  end repeat
end if

Unfortunately, the effect isn’t so good in OS X. :frowning:

#5

Wow. Thanks for the quick replies! Awesome.