Re: upgrade issues: 8.1 --> X
Re: upgrade issues: 8.1 --> X
- Subject: Re: upgrade issues: 8.1 --> X
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:49:03 -0800
On 3/13/01 5:58 PM, Chris Nebel <email@hidden> wrote:
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> is 1.6 OS X specific, or will it run under 9.1 as well?
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There will be an AppleScript 1.6 update for Mac OS 9; it should be
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available on March 24 as well.
Great!
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> What about Carbonized additions? Can OS X recognize them if they're in
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> the OS 9 System Folder?
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As Shane pointed out, Carbonized additions *are* the native ones. It's
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unfortunately not feasible to run a Carbonized scripting addition on Mac
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OS 9,
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because if it's ever triggered in a non-Carbon application, it tends to do
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really horrible things to your system -- at a minimum, the application will
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crash. We therefore have to maintain a strict separation.
I see. So those who will be running both native and classic environments
will have to have two copies of essentially the same additions in
different places of their hard disk. Luckily they're not all that large.
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> As for multiple locations of scripting additions in OS X, is there a
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> central location where all users can see them, so they don't have to be
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> duplicated for each user? That way each user can have his own
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> specialized additions as well as being able to access the common ones.
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You bet. There are (sort of) four different scripting addition folders:
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one for the system (only Apple-installed ones go here), one for the
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machine (visible to all users on that machine), one for the network
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(visible to all users on the local network; this requires your admin to do
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some clever things), and one for the current user. Obviously, each user
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has their own addition folder, which is why I said "sort of four." That
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way, you can install an addition just for yourself without disrupting
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anyone else, or you can force it on everybody.
That's terrific.
--Michelle
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