Wondering if anyone has any recent experience of using AppleScript's
'with transaction' blocks?
Years ago, I wrote a detailed explanation of how 'with transaction'
worked
in the few Classic Mac OS applications that implemented it -- and
how it was
supposed to work. [...] You can still find my article on the
AppleScript
Sourcebook at its new venue at MacScripter.net.
Useful. BTW, you wrote there:
"FileMaker Pro 8 comes with documentation (apparently unchanged since
FileMaker Pro 7) stating that it supports transactions. However, I
can't make transactions work in FileMaker Pro 8. It executes commands
that are placed in a With Transaction block, but I believe it is
simply ignoring the With Transaction statement as other applications
do."
I've replied to some other posts on AS-implementors:
Basically it looks like AS's 'with transaction' block is either
broken or deliberately disconnected in Tiger (and probably earlier OS
X versions as well), which may or may not be the reason FMP 8 doesn't
appear to support transactions. Did you try it with explicit «event
miscbegi» and «event miscendt» events to see if it listened to those?
