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Re: Why does this crash in 9.2.2?
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Re: Why does this crash in 9.2.2?


  • Subject: Re: Why does this crash in 9.2.2?
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:14:00 -0700

On 6/23/02 4:04 PM, "Wade Riddick" <email@hidden> wrote:

>> info for. Some people say that it is generally not a good idea to insert a
>> call to a Scripting Addition in a "tell" wrapper. Furthermore, in your
>> case, some people say that the version of AppleScript that is included in
>> 9.2.2 does not work, and that you should replace both the extension and
>> "standard additions" with their 1.6 version. Personally, I don't know.
>
> There's a general problem with system 9, I think. I'm running 1.8 and
> about 80% of my scripts from 8.5 mysteriously stall, don't work or have a
> strange bugs. The sort extension doesn't work. Neither do commands for
> setting the length of various forks. I pull this stuff out and it still
> goes nuts. I don't know what the hell to do except avoid using OS 9 and X.
> I've posted the problems before but nobody's been of much help except with
> scripting PPP questions - which, I understand, is broken too in the latest
> versions, but for independent reasons.
>
> Help on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

Almost all the problems are to do with Finder scripting. Almost every Finder
command has an equivalent alternate somewhere within the huge collection of
scripting additions commands called Akua Sweets. Akua Sweets commands have
no problem in OS 9.2.2, OS 1.8.x. I think they even manage OK with AS 1.7.
So substitute Akua for Finder (which I've been doing for years in OS 8/9
anyway.) if you're writing scripts not just for yourself and you think they
may be used by people with better OS's and no Akua, do this every time:

try
some Akua command
on error
tell application "Finder" to stumble through equivalent with delays
and timeouts
end try


--
Paul Berkowitz
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