Re: AppleScript & old PowerMacs
Re: AppleScript & old PowerMacs
- Subject: Re: AppleScript & old PowerMacs
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 01:23:04 EST
IMHO, every PowerMac deserves at least MacOS 8.1. There are some significant
and subtle differences between Applescript on 8.1 and on 8.5 and later. I
would suggest recompiling and testing on an 8.1 machine before distributing.
I would also suggest settling on one OS version for all the machines to
minimize administration hassles.
IIRC, the 5200 series had some serious design problems that caused them to
run dramatically more slowly than they should have. If you find 7.6.1 to be
substantially faster on those machines, I suppose I would use that OS.
Don't use 8.5. There was an AS memory leak that was fixed in 8.5.1. IMHO, 8.6
was a better OS than 8.5.1. I doubt that today's Applescript would run
correctly on yesterday's OSes.
I would also make sure that a uniform set of scripting additions (aka osax)
was present on each machine.
Jeff Baumann
email@hidden
www.linkedresources.com
In a message dated 10/27/01 11:15:20 PM, Craig Nansen wrote:
>
In our school district we have over 1,500 Macs of all vintages and I
>
have run into problems getting scripts I have written to run on the
>
older machines. I have gotten them to run by trial and error, but it
>
would help if I knew more about what I am trying to do.
>
>
What are the limitations of running an AppleScript on an older
>
PowerMac such as a 5200 or 5260 running OS 7.6.1?
>
>
Can an applescript be written on a Mac G4 and run on these machines
>
as long as they have the correct version of AppleScript extensions?
>
Or does it have to be re-written using the Script Editor on those
>
machines?
>
>
What version of AppleScript needs to be on these machines? Can the
>
current version be run on OS 8.1 machines?