Weird effect of Carbon Lib update
Weird effect of Carbon Lib update
- Subject: Weird effect of Carbon Lib update
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 22:53:43 -0300
I've got a bunch of scripts that pluck the URL from the frontmost web
page and mails it to some friend (sort of "hey, check this out"
scripts - one for each of several friends). I'm using them on an
older PowerBook running 9.1, and for some reason - oh, yeah, I
remember now, it was to use a newer version of BBEdit - I updated the
Carbon Lib on that Mac to 1.6. Now the scripts don't work.
But the failure mode is interesting. With the new Carbon Lib
installed the frontmost window in Netscape is not the browser window
I see, but the Java Console (determined by getting the name of the
frontmost window). You can't see any Java Console window, but now
it's seen by the script as the frontmost window. Anyone seen this
before? It's the same version of netscape I was using before, so why
is the carbon lib update producing a phantom window? Designating
"window 2" gives the URL of the frontmost window, which makes it look
like the window indexing has changed. Bit of a puzzle. Anyone got an
explanation?
On a related note, is anyone scripting Netscape 7 for X, Classic, or
Mozilla for X. A few weeks ago I moved my "morning surf" script to
the TiPB running X and not one of those browsers will even make a new
window from a script. Errors out in all three versions. Ugh. Moved
the script to iCab and with some readjustment to accommodate the way
iCab behaves, it works fine. I guess AppleScript isn't big on
Netscape's list of priorities.
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