How do you have a dialog close after a period of time?

Sk8.4.Life · August 29, 2007, 3:30am

I know I read about how to do this somewhere but I can’t for the life of me find it on the forums and it’s really irritating me… Anywho, I just want to know how you display a dialog, but if the user fails to provide any input after a certain time, it will just go with the default answer and continue the script.

Bruce_Phillips · August 29, 2007, 3:48am

Try something like this:

display dialog "" giving up after 1

FYI, display dialog can be found in the StandardAdditions (scripting addition) dictionary.

Master_Bob · September 1, 2007, 7:12pm

When using the “giving up after” X, what are the time units of X?

nat · September 1, 2007, 7:14pm

seconds, as with the delay X function

Bruce_Phillips · September 1, 2007, 7:15pm

Straight from the dictionary of StandardAdditions:

display dialog string : the text to display in the dialog box
[default answer string] : the default editable text
[hidden answer boolean] : Should editable text be displayed as bullets? (default is false)
[buttons list of string] : a list of up to three button names
[default button number or string] : the name or number of the default button
[cancel button number or string] : the name or number of the cancel button
[with title string] : the dialog window title
[with icon number or string] : the resource name or ID of the icon to display.
[with icon stop/note/caution] : .or one of these system icons.
[with icon file] : .or an alias or file reference to a ˜.icns’ file
[giving up after integer] : number of seconds to wait before automatically dismissing the dialog
â†’ dialog reply : a record containing the button clicked and text entered (if any)