Thread-topic: AppleScript's 'with transaction' statement broken? (Or just misunderstood?)
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on 2006-11-21 6:26 PM, has at email@hidden wrote:
> 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?
I don't think I tested it that way. I wrote a script to test for transaction
support in any app a long time ago, but I don't have time to check whether I
ever posted it anywhere. I think I did, and I know I still have it around
here somewhere. But I had to hard wire some tests that would cause it to
miss apps that used different techniques. But I never heard of any.
I've written a demo app that implements every Standard Suite verb in a Core
Data app on Mac OS X, but it doesn't support transactions. I do plan to add
transactions, as soon as I have time....
My belief is that Mac OS X does allow you to support transactions, but I
don't know of any that do it -- except for the reference to VOODOO
something that was mentioned in this thread, which I don't have time to
check out.
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Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
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