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OK, I am making a twitter updater and I am having one problem. I can not display the window that tells if the Tweet was sent or not. My issue is that I need to make a window appear. That’s it. I’ve used “makeKeyandOrderFront_(sender)” and so many. I don’t know what to do. Can someone help. Here is the script that I got:

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makeKeyandOrderFront_ should be makeKeyAndOrderFront_. The easiest way to change it is to set it to | makeKeyAndOrderFront_|

There’s a lot to be said for copying and pasting method names from Help…

Nothing Worked. UGH… Can someone help. Also, Show me an example. (thank for posting so early, Shane)

Please help immediately!

That’s not very helpful…

Sure:

property secWin : missing value
	
on hitButton_(sender)
secWin's |makeKeyAndOrderFront_|(me)
end hitButton_

And if you have fixed the name of the method as I suggested earlier, that’s going to be of no help.

Try logging secWin’s class and make sure it’s correct.

I want to be able to make a window pop up with Applescript. Also, show me an example. Please look at the code and see the comment “–EDIT THIS”

I logged the numbers 1,2, and 3. Here’s the code:

--
--  Twitter_UpdaterAppDelegate.applescript
--  Twitter Updater
--

script Twitter_UpdaterAppDelegate
	property theTweet : missing value -- the tweet
	property theusername : missing value -- the username
	property theuserpass : missing value -- the password
	property loginwindow : missing value -- the login window
	property twitterwindow : missing value -- the twitter window
	property sendlabel : missing value -- sending label
	property sendwindow : missing value -- sending window
	property loadbox : missing value -- the loading box
	property spinner : missing value -- the spinner
	
	on awakeFromNib()
		theusername's setStringValue_(do shell script "defaults read com.twitter.login User")
		theuserpass's setStringValue_(do shell script "defaults read com.twitter.login Pass")
		activate
	end awakeFromNib
	
	on quit_(sender)
		do shell script "defaults write com.twitter.login User " & (theusername's stringValue())
		do shell script "defaults write com.twitter.login Pass " & (theuserpass's stringValue())
		quit
	end quit_
	
	on filter_(sender) -- filter for twitter rules
		set Tweet to theTweet's stringValue() as string
		set twtcount to count Tweet
		if twtcount is greater than 141 then -- twitter's 140 limit rule
			display dialog "You have a tryed to send a tweet to twitter that is more than 140 characters. I will ask for your tweet again! (-1)" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
		else if twtcount is 0 then
			display dialog "You have a tryed to send a tweet to twitter that is 0 characters. I will ask for your tweet again! (-2)" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
		else
			twitter(Tweet)
		end if
	end filter_
	
	on twitter(Tweet) -- to twitter it goes
		set TwitterUser to name of login()
		set TwitterPassword to password of login()
		set TwitterUpdate to "/usr/bin/curl" & ¬
			" --user " & quoted form of (TwitterUser & ":" & TwitterPassword) & ¬
			" --data status=" & quoted form of en(Tweet) & ¬
			" [url=http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml]http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"[/url] -- sets the update shell script
		set sended to do shell script TwitterUpdate -- sents the tweet
		if sended does not contain "Could not authenticate" then
			log "1"
			sendlabel's setStringValue_("Your tweet has been sent successfully!")
			log "2"
			sendwindow's makeKeyAndOrderFront_(me) -- EDIT THIS
			log "3"
		else if sended contains "Could not authenticate" then
			sendlabel's setStringValue_("Your tweet was not sent successfully. Check your login info by going to \"File\"→\"Login\"")
			sendwindow's makeKeyAndOrderFront_(me) -- EDIIT THIS
		end if
	end twitter
	
	on login_(sender) -- getting login info
		set username to ""
		set userpass to ""
		try
			set loginuser to (do shell script "defaults read com.twitter.login User")
		on error F
			if F contains " does not exist" then
				set username to theusername's stringValue() as string
				do shell script "defaults write com.twitter.login User " & username
			end if
		end try
		try
			set loginpass to (do shell script "defaults read com.twitter.login Pass")
		on error F
			if F contains " does not exist" then
				set userpass to theuserpass's stringValue() as string
				do shell script "defaults write com.twitter.login Pass " & userpass
			end if
		end try
		if username is "" then
			set username to loginuser as string
		end if
		if userpass is "" then
			set userpass to loginpass as string
		end if
		if (theusername's stringValue()) is not username then
			set preusername to (theusername's stringValue())
			do shell script "defaults write com.twitter.login User " & preusername
		end if
		if (theuserpass's stringValue()) is not userpass then
			set preuserpass to (theuserpass's stringValue())
			do shell script "defaults write com.twitter.login Pass " & preuserpass
		end if
		set returner to {name:username, password:userpass}
		return returner
	end login_
	
	on login() -- getting login info
		set username to ""
		set userpass to ""
		try
			set loginuser to (do shell script "defaults read com.twitter.login User")
		on error F
			if F contains " does not exist" then
				set username to theusername's stringValue() as string
				do shell script "defaults write com.twitter.login User " & username
			end if
		end try
		try
			set loginpass to (do shell script "defaults read com.twitter.login Pass")
		on error F
			if F contains " does not exist" then
				set userpass to theuserpass's stringValue() as string
				do shell script "defaults write com.twitter.login Pass " & userpass
			end if
		end try
		if username is "" then
			set username to loginuser as string
		end if
		if userpass is "" then
			set userpass to loginpass as string
		end if
		if (theusername's stringValue()) is not username then
			set preusername to (theusername's stringValue())
			do shell script "defaults write com.twitter.login User " & preusername
		end if
		if (theuserpass's stringValue()) is not userpass then
			set preuserpass to (theuserpass's stringValue())
			do shell script "defaults write com.twitter.login Pass " & preuserpass
		end if
		set returner to {name:username, password:userpass}
		return returner
	end login
	
	on en(URLs)
		return do shell script "/usr/bin/python -c '" & ¬
			"from sys import argv; " & ¬
			"from urllib import quote; " & ¬
			"print quote(unicode(argv[1], \"utf8\"))' " & quoted form of URLs
	end en
end script

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This is what I got:

That means you’re sending the command to an NSView, not an NSWindow. I’d guess sendwindow is connected in IB to the window’s content view, not the window itself.

People: if you have a problem and it results in something appearing in the log, please post the log. Posting reams of code is pointless if the problem isn’t in the code.

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