Simple AppleScript question

[Julien Salort]

I'm not sure whether this is the appropriate forum. If not, please
redirect me.

I'm using the Speakable Items feature in MacOS X. I want to add a simple
AppleScript that tell iTunes to play, wait 5 minutes and tell iTunes to
stop playing.

This works :
tell application "iTunes"
play
delay 300
stop playing
end tell

But the computer stops listening spoken commands until the timer has
shot. When the script terminates, the spoken commands queue gets
suddently flushed.

I don't know AppleScript very well. Would it be possible to work around
the problem ?

I thought it might be possible to install a crontab that would tell
iTunes to stop but I don't know how to do that.
-> tell application "iTunes" to play
-> Install a crontab to make it stop in 5 minutes

Any help ?

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[Patrick Stadelmann]

In article <1fzp06t.i4blormtfmg6N%mail@juliensalort.org>,
[email]mail@juliensalort.org[/email] (Julien Salort) wrote:

> I'm not sure whether this is the appropriate forum. If not, please
> redirect me.

alt.comp.lang.applescript is probably the best newsgroup for questions
about AppleScript.

> I'm using the Speakable Items feature in MacOS X. I want to add a simple
> AppleScript that tell iTunes to play, wait 5 minutes and tell iTunes to
> stop playing.
>
> This works :
> tell application "iTunes"
> play
> delay 300
> stop playing
> end tell
>
> But the computer stops listening spoken commands until the timer has
> shot. When the script terminates, the spoken commands queue gets
> suddently flushed.

> I don't know AppleScript very well. Would it be possible to work around
> the problem ?

It depends on how Speakable Items works. According to your description
of the problem, it seems that as long as the script is not completed,
Speakable Items will wait doing nothing. If this is the case, a solution
would be to put your script in a separate applet. The Speakable Items
script would simply launch it and quit, allowing new commands to be
spoken and recognized.

Patrick
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[matt neuburg]

In <Patrick.Stadelmann-8A458F.18141614082003@news.fu-berlin.de> Patrick
Stadelmann wrote:

> a solution
> would be to put your script in a separate applet. The Speakable Items
> script would simply launch it and quit, allowing new commands to be
> spoken and recognized

I agree; this is what I was going to suggest. m.

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