Language Guide

CHAPTER 7

Control Statements

With Timeout Statements 217

ignoring case

if "This or that" = "thisorthat" then beep 2 --false

ignoring white space

if "This or that" = "thisorthat" then beep 1 --true

end ignoring

With Timeout Statements 7

When AppleScript sends a command to an application, it normally waits for

the command to complete execution before continuing with the rest of the

script. If the command takes longer than one minute to complete, AppleScript

stops running the script and returns the error "event timed out".

With Timeout statements let you change how long AppleScript waits before

stopping execution of a script. The amount of time you specify in a With

Timeout statement applies to some types of commands within the statement

that are sent to other applications, but not to any commands sent to the

application that’s running the script.

The speciﬁed time applies to all application commands and to any scripting

addition commands whose targets are application objects—that is,

scripting addition commands within Tell statements to application objects

or scripting addition commands whose direct parameters are application

objects. The time speciﬁed by a With Timeout statement does not apply to

AppleScript commands, AppleScript operations, or scripting addition

commands whose targets are not application objects.

Note

If you want AppleScript to proceed to the next statement

without waiting for application commands to complete,

use an Ignoring statement to ignore the application

responses attribute. For more information, see

“Considering and Ignoring Statements” on page 213. ◆