[dice]

I have a few questions about AppleScript and AppleScript Studio...
I want a text field that will allow a user to enter some text then on return display the text in a popup dialog, here is my code:

Code:
on action theObject
  set returned_text to contents of text field "textField" of window "main" as string	
  display dialog returned_text buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end action

All that happens is an empty dialog pops up with an OK button and it has no text from the textfield....
any ideas?


also is there a better way to check if an app is running than this:

Code:
property running : false
tell application "Finder"
  if (get name of every process) contains "Internet Explorer" then set running to true
end tell
if running then
--do some stuff
end if

[Camelot]

On your first question, I can't see anything off hand that might cause a problem. Check field and window names to make sure they exist.

On the second question, there is a better way.

Primarily, under Mac OS X, you shouldn't do this via the Finder. There's no guarantee the Finder is running, especially in a multi-user environment or if you're running in the background. You should 'tell application "System Events"' instead.

Other than that, your code is fine.