On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Luca C. <luca.pazzere...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/31 Ammar Ibrahim <ammar.ibra...@gmail.com>
>> If I want to add a track to iTunes, I need to make sure iTunes is
>> responsive.
>>
>>
> Are you sure it is that important? Actually, if you run an AS script wich,
> say, opens with the Finder some mp3 files whilst iTunes has dialog windows
> opened, the command will be automatically enqueued.  In other words, your
> tracks will be added after the user closes the dialog window.
>  Run the script in a separate thread so it won't block your application's
> interface in any case.

No, don't do this. AppleScript is not safe to use outside the main
thread. If you must run AppleScript asynchronously, either spawn a
subprocess to run it or, better yet, don't use AS at all but send
Apple Events in some other way, such as with ScriptingBridge.

Mike
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