Re: Script Editor 1.6 problems ...
Re: Script Editor 1.6 problems ...
- Subject: Re: Script Editor 1.6 problems ...
- From: John Cooper <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:44:28 -0700
On 2001.08.02, Michelle Steiner wrote:
On 8/2/01 8:16 AM, harry brindley <email@hidden> wrote:
I'm having this problem with Script Editor 1.16 under Mac OS 9.1 on
an iBook where ...
1. The text in my Format button in my Save dialog is often corrupted
and, quite often ..
2. If I double click a script to open the Script Editor, all the
menus and their pull down items are similarly corrupted (although if
I launch the Editor first and then file>open the script the menus are
not corrupted, just the Format button mentioned in para 1 above.
Anybody else notice this, know why and how to fix?
It's because for some reason, the Finder has made one of the
foreign-language versions of Script Editor in Mac OS X the default
application--and that application (as are all of the OS X
foreign-language versions) is inside a package. I had to stuff the
entire folder containing those packages, delete the folder, and delete
the foreign-language prefs file, then rebuild the desktop, to get things
working properly.
Yes, the iBook is launching the Japanese OS X Script Editor. My iBook
did the same thing.
An easier and less potentially destructive way to fix the problem is
to change the English OS 9 Script Editor's creation date so that it
appears to be the most recent of all the Script Editors present. (The
Finder always chooses the most recent of conflicting applications on
the active partition.) I did this with the Snitch utility and have
had no problems since--although I still see an occasional cosmetic
glitch, such as an alert message reading 'The %1$@"%2$@" wouldn't
compile; you won't be able to save it in compiled form, only as text'
when I tried to save a poorly written script. Since %1$@"%2$@" was an
excellent way of describing the script in question, I don't have a
problem with that.
--
John Cooper