Is it possible to have multiple dialog boxes open at once?

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#1

Trying to cobble together a handler which will scan thru a Quark doc and check for the existence of a few style sheets.

I run it in a loop. When it finds one missing, the script pops open a dialog saying “the stylesheet x is missing”

What I would like is to somehow keep every dialog box open.

ie
If it finds both stylesheets “header1” and “header3” missing, it will keep a dialog box open for each of them.

	tell document 1 of application "QuarkXPress"
		activate
		
		set stylshts to {"header1", "header2", "header3"}
		
		repeat with ThisText in stylshts
			set ThisText to ThisText as string
			if not (exists style spec ThisText) then
				display dialog ("You're missing the stylesheet" & return & ThisText) giving up after 1
			end if
		end repeat

I think I read somewhere that in order to do this I would have to have the Finder be the app displaying the dialogs. Can anyone tell me more?

#2

This is not possible with a single script, but probably by using multiple scripts.
Or you could use Growl for the notification

#3

Hmm…

You’re right, Growl would be ideal.

Unfortunately, I’d have to make sure its installed on every machine first, and I don’t know if my IT people would go for it.

#4

Why not just one dialog box with all missing style sheets


tell document 1 of application "QuarkXPress"
		activate
		
		set stylshts to {"header1", "header2", "header3"}
		set missingStylshts to ""
		repeat with ThisText in stylshts
			if not (exists style spec ThisText) then
				set missingStylshts to missingStylshts & return & contents of ThisText
			end if
		end repeat
	   if missingStylshts is not "" then
	   		display dialog ("You're missing the stylesheet(s)" & missingStylshts) giving up after 1
	   end if
#5

Yeah, that’s what I currently have. I was hoping to have a separate reminder for each style that was missing.

I’ll live…