Re: spurious timeout on nth Apple event on Snow Leopard
Re: spurious timeout on nth Apple event on Snow Leopard
- Subject: Re: spurious timeout on nth Apple event on Snow Leopard
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:06:05 -0700
- Thread-topic: spurious timeout on nth Apple event on Snow Leopard
I believe that this bug is at last fixed in the recently release 10.6.3 Snow
Leopard update. Users with their own independent ways of testing might wish
to give it a go and report back. m.
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:06:23 -0800, Matt Neuburg <email@hidden> said:
>On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:16:01 +0100, email@hidden said:
>>Again, you can see that the rest-runs in Script Debugger produced 100%
>consistent results (i is always exactly 65534). You're right, Script Debugger
>shows about twice the events (I didn't noticed that). But that would mean the
>bug is not about every 65536nth event lost but about twice the amount.
>>That backups my guess that it not a 65534-counter-problem only. I think it's a
>combination of something and it manifests differently.
>>Or, it's just that AppleScript Debugger is so buggy that it leads to random
>results.
>>BUT, I know for sure that I already saw random results in Script Debugger,
too.
>
>All of this is just flailing and conjecture, and in any case it's mere
>noise; it's beside the point. AppleScript is a victim of the problem but it
>cannot portray the problem (my original script was just to help AppleScript
>users see that it does exist).
>
>The only real way to see the heart of the problem fully, reliably, and
>quantitatively is to do something that AppleScript cannot do for you:
>Examine the actual dynamically generated Reply ID value of an outgoing Apple
>event and compare it with the actual Reply ID value of the corresponding
>reply that comes back. I have written an application that does precisely
>that, and it shows that when the outgoing Apple event's dynamically
>generated Reply ID is -1, the corresponding reply's Reply ID is 0, which is
>a mismatch (exactly as conjectured by Hamish).
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