Comments on: iChat AppleScript / Apple Event Gotcha With “set status”

By: Kentzo

Kentzo — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:20:42 +0000

Try to call sleep function between setting status and status message:
tell application “iChat”
set status to away
do shell script “sleep 0.1″
set status message to “Away”
end tell
That helps me.

By: Vincent Gable

Vincent Gable — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:52:17 +0000

I'm afraid I have no suggestions, except reporting it at: http://bugreport.apple.com. Good luck!

By: Lantrix

Lantrix — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:03:11 +0000

With the current version of iChat under OS 10.6.6, I can’t get the workaround to work.
This fails to do both, and I only get the message, without the status changing:

tell application "iChat" set status to away set status message to "Do Not Disturb" end tell

However this works:
tell application "iChat" set status to away end tell

and this works:
tell application "iChat" set status message to "Do Not Disturb" end tell