I am trying to make an Applescript to run with VoiceOver to popup a dialog asking to quit the current application. I was able to get one to work but it only works some of the time.I believe this is because of memory issues in some applications, that is why there is a delay. I tried telling the "frontmost" application to quit and it didn't work either.
display dialog "Quit current application?" buttons {"cancel", "ok"} default button "ok"
if result = {button returned:"ok"} then
delay 1.7
tell application "System Events" to key code 12 using command down
else if result = {button returned:"cancel"} then
end if
See if the following works any better. No need for UI stuff, as the vast majority of apps will understand, or respond to the quit command. The first thing I do is get the frontmost process (the file path, actually, which is safer for some apps -- like NeoOffice, for example -- that is, safer than just getting the name).
tell application "Finder" to set p to item 1 of (get file of (processes whose frontmost = true)) as text
display dialog ("Quit current application?" & return & "(" & p & ")") buttons {"cancel", "ok"} default button 2
if button returned of (result) = "ok" then
tell application p to quit
end if