PlayerAppleScript Issues
There are a few tech support issues that are specific to AppleScript. Here's what we have so far, please let us know if you have additional suggestions.display dialog
Since Player is a faceless background application (and system extension), it doesn't support user interaction -- including "display dialog". While debugging, just use the "log" command (and open the log window in your script editor). If you still want to call "display dialog" in the middle of many calls to Player, just end the "tell Player", display the message, and start a new "tell Player" block:
tell application "PreFab Player™"
-- display dialog "message goes here" -- this won't work!
log "some message here" -- fine for debugging
end tell
display dialog "message goes here" -- this will work fine
tell application "PreFab Player™"
-- do more stuff
end tell
Style guide: nesting
Remember that Player controls the frontmost application or Control Panel. Player doesn't care how that item came to the front, nor does the "tell Player" block have to be nested in a "tell application whatever" block.
While you could say:
tell application "Whatever"
activate
tell application "PreFab Player™"
-- do something
end tell
end tell
You can avoid one level of nesting -- and perhaps be somewhat more clear about who is doing what -- as follows:
tell application "Whatever" to activate
tell application "PreFab Player™"
-- do something
end tell
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