Re: Source Text of Script Objects
Re: Source Text of Script Objects
- Subject: Re: Source Text of Script Objects
- From: Arthur J Knapp <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 14:36:36 -0500
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Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 10:37:20 -0800
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Subject: Re: Source Text of Script Objects
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From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
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>> Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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>>> Does anyone know how to get the source text of a script object - in
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>>> applescript?
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On 12/31/01 10:13 AM, "Arthur J Knapp" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Can someone confirm that this is truely vanilla:
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> script theScript
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> string {theScript}
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Well, the _script_ is vanilla,
Right, I meant "vanilla" in the sense that no third-party
coercions are involved. :)
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... but all it does is error in Script Editor
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(almost wrote Script Idiot) in OS 10.1.2 (AS 1.8.1):
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Can't get string {<<script theScript>>}
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Same in SD.
Mmmm, I can't currently test under OS X, so I'll have to take your
word for it. I am testing under OS 9.1, Script Editor and Debugger.
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So if it's doing something else for you on OS 9, it might be the Jon's
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coercion everyone else was having fun with. Or another one.
I'm quite certain that I moved Jon's out of the Scripting Additions
folder before testing, as well as the few other non-Apple additions
that I have. It must be a System 9 thing???
What happens when you do this on OS X?:
display dialog {theScript} -- where theScript is a script object
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