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Re: Re: Parents/Child Scripts
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Re: Re: Parents/Child Scripts


  • Subject: Re: Re: Parents/Child Scripts
  • From: Lachlan Deck <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 10:14:46 +1000

Hi there,

From: Erik Price <email@hidden>

On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 08:21 PM, has wrote:

I think this same argument can be applied to just about anything that
goes
beyond simple "pull the email from Entourage and dump it into FMP" type
scripting. There's so many things about AS that make it a horror to
scale.
All the same, I think it still scales to a sufficient level to be "good
enough" for many tasks.

I'm kind of worried about this. I am new to AppleScript, and I need to
create a droplet or some sort of applet that can generate thumbnails of
graphics files (such as JPEGs or Photoshop files or PDFs) on Mac OS 9.
I subscribed to this list just the other day to learn more about
AppleScript, since it is very different from other languages I am used
to. Does AppleScript run into memory problems when working on large
amounts of data? I was hoping to perform the abovementioned task on
folders containing > 300 MB of files.... (!)

What you're trying to do is script applications to do the work (which is no problem at all). The before-mentioned things were talking about (AppleScript itself working on internally huge amounts of data - e.g., 500,000 lines data)

with regards,

--
Lachlan Deck
email@hidden
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