Re: AppleScript & old PowerMacs
Re: AppleScript & old PowerMacs
- Subject: Re: AppleScript & old PowerMacs
- From: Timothy Bates <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:36:44 +1100
There are such a variety of gotchas and changing bug sets for AppleScript
(esp. over the 8.0-9.2) timeframe, that the best bet for consistency is
probably to install Tanaka and Akua everywhere and rely on them actually
working, instead of pulling your hair out special-casing which version of
AppleScript had broken read or left of the last character of reads or
ignores errors on read "" etc.
On 28/10/01 5:23 PM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
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IMHO, every PowerMac deserves at least MacOS 8.1. There are some significant
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and subtle differences between Applescript on 8.1 and on 8.5 and later. I
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would suggest recompiling and testing on an 8.1 machine before distributing.
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I would also suggest settling on one OS version for all the machines to
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minimize administration hassles.
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IIRC, the 5200 series had some serious design problems that caused them to
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run dramatically more slowly than they should have. If you find 7.6.1 to be
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substantially faster on those machines, I suppose I would use that OS.
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Don't use 8.5. There was an AS memory leak that was fixed in 8.5.1. IMHO, 8.6
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was a better OS than 8.5.1. I doubt that today's Applescript would run
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correctly on yesterday's OSes.
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I would also make sure that a uniform set of scripting additions (aka osax)
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was present on each machine.
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Jeff Baumann
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email@hidden
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www.linkedresources.com
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In a message dated 10/27/01 11:15:20 PM, Craig Nansen wrote:
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> In our school district we have over 1,500 Macs of all vintages and I
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> have run into problems getting scripts I have written to run on the
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> older machines. I have gotten them to run by trial and error, but it
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> would help if I knew more about what I am trying to do.
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> What are the limitations of running an AppleScript on an older
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> PowerMac such as a 5200 or 5260 running OS 7.6.1?
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> Can an applescript be written on a Mac G4 and run on these machines
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> as long as they have the correct version of AppleScript extensions?
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> Or does it have to be re-written using the Script Editor on those
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> machines?
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> What version of AppleScript needs to be on these machines? Can the
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> current version be run on OS 8.1 machines?
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