log and display notification not working

[dworsham]

I have a rule that executes an embedded AppleScript. I'm trying to get information about what's going on during the execution of the script, so I've tried using log statements and display notification statements. Neither has any result. They work fine when I run the script in AppleScript Editor, though.

I've even stripped the script down to a single log statement or a single display notification statement. No joy.

Any thoughts?

[Mr_Noodle]

Not sure which log statement you are using, but display (which brings up UI) must be done from the context of a GUI program. The easiest way to do this is to wrap it in a "tell application "System Events"...end tell" block.

[dworsham]

Unfortunately, I did try that. I've tried (I also tried adding delay 1):
tell application "System Events"
display notification "test" with title "test"
end tell

and:
log ("test")

[Mr_Noodle]

Not familiar with those specific commands but have you tried displaying a dialog? I know I've done that specifically and it works.

According to this, log() only works in the editor: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1365 ... pplescript

It shows some alternate ways to log.