applescript stuck each time

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  1. ratch90, Dec 17, 2008

    ratch90 macrumors newbie

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    Ok, so i made this applescript for xtorrent which starts it, and quits it every hour, so i can download without the speed limit..
    I made it very simple and it looks like this,

    repeat
    tell application "Xtorrent" to activate
    delay 3550
    tell application "Xtorrent" to quit
    delay 30
    end repeat

    I also made a very simple interface for it, with a run and a quit button, but everytime I run the applescript it does everything i ask, but i can't quit it, only with force quit. So today I pasted it into Xcode
    and tried everything, button to button, but I just can't get it quit. I should be able to end the repeat when i push the stop button. like that I would be able to start it back later without having to force quit it each time.

    Alse I have been told, that Applescript is very limited in doing applications, maybe it would be better to do this in any other programming language, or is it possible to do this with applescript?


    Really thanx for all your help
     
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  2. Sayer, Dec 17, 2008

    Sayer macrumors 6502a

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    When using "delay" your script, and thus the app, hangs until the delay is over. So the script can't be "stopped" because its waiting for the delay timeout.

    You can get around that by using the on idle event handler. You return a number from that handler that is a delay until the idle event is sent again. You can return 60 (seconds) and count from 1 to 60 and at 60 quit the app.

    It's been a while since I did that level of scripting, but I believe you return the number of whole seconds, not milliseconds or something.

    Code:
    on idle

set timeCount to timeCount + 1

if timeCount > 60 then

quit app

end if

return 60

end idle
     
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