End a Tell in the middle of the script.

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#1

First of all, I was wondering if anybody knows how to escape a Tell (without using end tell) to run another Tell. Here is the deal, I have a long script that uses:

tell application "iTunes"
code
code
cdoe
display dialog "There are no tracks selected!"
code
cdoe
end tell

Now, I don’t want the dialog to come up in iTunes, I want it to be attached to window “main”. And, since the display dialog is burried deep within the else if statements, I cannot end the iTunes tell and then restart it. Is there any way to exit the tell temporarily in order to tell window “main”? Thanks alot for any help here.

#2

Anything inside a “tell” block targets the related thing, except for another “tell” block (or an explicit “my” specification for handlers and script objects).

tell application "iTunes"
	activate
	tell me
		activate
		display dialog "foo"
	end tell
end tell