Fetch Softworks

trapping fetch errors (3 posts)

• Started 23 years ago by rosmifetch
• Latest reply 23 years ago from rosmifetch

• rosmifetch Member

  Hi- I'm running an applescript here on a few G4-cubes and os 9.1 that ftp stuff from the cubes to our Unix based RIPs. If something bad happens to one of the Unix boxes, I'm having trouble trapping for Fetch 3.03's errors. What I want to happen is for fetch to tell applescript the error so I can add it to a log file and have everything continue on it's merry way. Instead, when an error occurs, the script gets and logs the error and Fetch throws up a dialog box, refusing to do anything else, and stops the script from continuing.... ideas? Here's my code snippet:

  try
  with timeout of 180 seconds
  tell application "Fetch 3.0.3" to put into url curdfurl item alias myitem binary format Raw Data
  end timeout
  tell application "Finder" to delete file myitem
  on error errMsg
  tell me to display dialog the errMsg buttons {"Continue"} default button 1 giving up after 3
  logfile({errMsg, "Destination: " & curdfurl, "Source: " & myitem})
  end try

  Posted 23 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Fetch shouldn't put up an error dialog if its responding to an AppleScript. Can you describe the error that your script receives, and the error dialog that Fetch puts up?

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 23 years ago #

• rosmifetch Member

  never mind, it was a goof on my part.
  I tried trapping for errors by doing
  try
  tell "fetch"
  do stuff
  end tell
  end try

  If I change my code to
  tell "fetch"
  try
  do stuff
  end try
  end tell
  fetch reports the errors to applescript.

  Posted 23 years ago #