Coupla questions about the Script Menu

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#1

Greetings… I am a relativiely new user here, been lurking for a
few months. I always find this board useful, and heretofore
answers for all my questions could easily be found in the
archives.

But! I have been un-able to find any decent documentation
on how the script menu works… so here’s my questions:

  1. is there any way to halt (or otherwise control) script execution
    from the script menu? My problem is that I have one script
    that I often inadvertently start at the wrong time, and when
    that happens I’d like to stop it before it modifies a bunch
    of files and stuff.

  2. i am working on a script that seems to work perfect in
    the directory i composed it in, but it doesn’t seem to work
    once i move it to the scripts folder (and hence to the menu).
    any suggestions?

thanks.

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#2

A script, once running, can only be stopped if you’ve made provision to stop it in the script itself. Several possibilities:

  1. Put a dialog at the front end:
display dialog "Proceed with this Script?" buttons {"Cancel", "Proceed"}
-- your code

This will quit if “Cancel” is selected, and run the script if Proceed is selected - no test is required.

  1. Save the script as an application. It will appear in the dock and you can quit it there.

The difficulty is almost certainly a path problem. When the script is in the directory it refers to, it works, but from the ~/Library/Scripts folder it doesn’t know where the original directory is. Can’t say more without seeing the script.

#3

perfect advice, thanks.