AppleScript 1.7 breaks Smile and others
AppleScript 1.7 breaks Smile and others
- Subject: AppleScript 1.7 breaks Smile and others
- From: "Daniel A. Shockley" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:55:13 -0500
AppleScript 1.7 breaks Smile and others ('open for access' now
requires stricter paths)
It seems that AppleScript 1.7 has changed the way to access files:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?email@hiddenyNzfgJ^1666@.efdb3fa/0
When using Mac OS 9.2.2, with AppleScript 1.7, Smile ( using versions
1.8.0 and 1.8.4) will no longer open script files. When you use
Smile's File...Open command, you get an error that the file was not
found.
It turns out that the culprit is Standard Additions 1.7. Other people
are noticing that the "open for access" command is now stricter about
requiring a full path to the file. (see
<
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?email@hiddenyNzfgJ^1666@.efdb3fa/0>
on Apple's Support Discussions)
It's very disturbing that this change was made, as it disables Smile
completely. It can also cause havoc for any script that uses a simple
file name (since the default path used to be the Desktop of the
startup disk). I downgraded both the AppleScript extensions and the
Standard Additions OSAX to version 1.6, which fixed the problem.
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Daniel A. Shockley
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