How to pause execution of applescript for some time?

Question

I have a small applescript in Automator:

do shell script "osascript ~/Focus-On.scpt"
delay 60
do shell script "osascript ~/Focus-Off.scpt"

Basically, i want to execute the first shell script, then, after a minute, the second one.

But Automator executes both without any delay. How to fix it?

Answer 1

Try the load script way, this works on my machine:

set homeFolder to path to home folder as text
set scriptOn to load script alias (homeFolder & "Focus-On.scpt")
run scriptOn
delay 60.0
set scriptOff to load script alias (homeFolder & "Focus-Off.scpt")
run scriptOff