Re: OS 9 applets in OS X's Classic environment
Re: OS 9 applets in OS X's Classic environment
- Subject: Re: OS 9 applets in OS X's Classic environment
- From: Chris Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:31:16 -0800
- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Tod Hallberg wrote:
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There was a message on thiis group from the Apple tech describing the changes in OS9.1 and the new version of applescript....one of the things was that since there have been so many changes to OS X, the OS X applets don't
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actually work. You need to upgrade to OS 9.1 and the new applescript, recompile, and resave as a OS X applet for them to work.
That's only true for applets saved as "Mac OS X applets", which is not what Aaron was asking about -- he's simply running a classic applet in the Classic environment, which does not require any resaving. Aaron, you're going to
have to provide more details about what the script is doing. What statement gives you the error? There are a lot of things that could produce it .
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Aaron London wrote:
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> I have a script that runs perfectly in OS 9.0.4. I moved it to my OS X machine and tried running it, without recompiling it as an OS X applet, and got the following error: File some object not found.
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> Also, as far as I know OS 9 scripts are supposed to be able to load OS 9 scripting additions when run in Classic, but so far scripts that load scripting additions and work fine in OS 9 (as the start up OS) break in Classic.
As far as I know, this is true. Please be more specific about failures you're seeing.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering