Re: Smile
Re: Smile
- Subject: Re: Smile
- From: Ed Stockly <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:38:59 -0800
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> 3- I can't find Smile's equivalent to Script Editors Event Log.
Smile doesn't have an equivalent to Script Editor's Event log. It does have
an output window that gives you some of the information if you're running
scripts in the right way.
Scripter, and Scripter Personal Edition, are much closer to Script Editor in
interface than any other editor Available and is stocked with some really
powerful features.
Is also has a much simpler interface and less of a learning curver than any
other editor available.
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>>>I liked how Script Editor would go through
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> each line of code and tell you what it returned after it, and where the
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> error was. Smiles worksheet window just tells me what the end result of the
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> script was.
Another advantage of Scripter is you can step through each line of your
script viewing the contents of every variable as they change while using
both the log and the result display.
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>[in Smile}
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You should _always_ use Output Window (command-L) when debugging more than
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a snippet of one or two lines, if you're working in Text windows (the only
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way to debug). If you don't open an Output window, then the result and the
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cursor keep flying down to the bottom of the Text window you're working in,
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making it impossible to do stepped line-by-line debugging. If you open
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Output Window, then Smile becomes a fully-fledged line-by-line step
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debugger, where you can just keep using the Enter key line by line without
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resetting. Sometimes I wonder whether maybe this should just be the default
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when you open a Text window, since I've noticed that a few people never seem
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to discover it.
I've been scripting for years and with every new release I try Smile and
just find it way to complex for what should really be a very simple and
straight forward process.
Opening scripts, debugging them, tracking variables, making changes, trying
new syntax should be simple. In scripter it is.
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Smile is crippled without it.
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What seems to you to be "some problems" in Smile? It's possible that some of
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these "problems" may just be not knowing all of Smile's features. The
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documentation still doesn't make it as easy as it could be to discover them
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all.
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Some people swear by Smile. It is free, and if that's the biggest issue for
you then it's probabably worth the time it takes to learn the interface.
If you can spare the 90 bucks then Scripter Personal Edition is a pretty
easy step from Script Editor to an AppleScript Authoring and debugging
environment.
ES
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