Re: ScriptEditor woes
Re: ScriptEditor woes
- Subject: Re: ScriptEditor woes
- From: Phil Dobbin <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:05:39 +0100
On 31/3/02 at 08:33, email@hidden (Rob Jorgensen) wrote:
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On 3/31/02, Phil Dobbin commented:
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>Whilst trying to find out why a certain script doesn't work in
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>Mailsmith 1.5, it was suggested that I activate the recording
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>feature in ScriptEditor, switch to Mailsmith and then perform a
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>couple of searches in a text window.
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>All went as expected until I tried to stop recording whereupon
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>ScriptEditor locked up and in the end I had to force quit. After a
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>log out/log in, I tried again but the same thing happened. It also
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>happens if I switch recording on from inside Mailsmith and from
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>other apps, so it seems to be a ScriptEditor issue.
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I don't have OS X but I do have questions which may be the result of
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responding on less than a full cup of coffee. ;-)
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1. Does OS X's Script Editor (or is it ScriptEditor?) still have the
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32k limit? If so...
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2. Is it possible that your recorded script is hitting the limit?
I tried again and this time just tried to record once an instance of find and the same thing happened. I don't think that would've sent it over the 32K limit.
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>Does anybody have any ideas as to why this is occurring? I believe
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>the Finder is non-recordable under OS X but does it extend to
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>everything else?
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On my pre-OS X systems, switching to a non-recordable app while
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recording would just result in nothing being added to the script.
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It's never caused a lockup (if that's why you're asking).
I'm switching primarily using Mailsmith which is definitely recordable (I tried using other apps to eliminate Mailsmith as the problem).
I've since seen other correspondence on other lists which comment on the same problem of recording using ScriptEditor on OS X, so I'm not alone.
Regards,
Phil.
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