Re: AppleScript's script size limit
Re: AppleScript's script size limit
- Subject: Re: AppleScript's script size limit
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 23:27:30 +0100
Thanks, really, Paul, for giving a new life to this very old mail by Chris.
(Personally, I had missed Chris' mail :-)
At 12:41 PM -0800 05/11/02, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
On 1/6/70 4:31 PM, "Chris Espinosa" <email@hidden> wrote:
On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 08:54 AM, a Emmanuel
<email@hidden> wrote:
At 4:52 PM -0800 03/11/02, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
On 11/3/02 4:23 PM, "Emmanuel" <email@hidden> wrote:
Somebody must be fiddling with the structure of AppleScript, or else
the
frameworks it's based upon, it seems to me.
How wonderful it would be if someone from Apple considered providing
us with a few hints ...
Sorry for the delay, I'm a little behind on my mail after a short
vacation.
We've looked into this and it turns out to be a bug introduced in
AppleScript 1.9 in Jaguar. In a code cleanup the type of an internal
variable was changed from signed to unsigned, which had the unfortunate
(and undetected) effect of breaking a calculation of the total number
of pieces of formatted text in a script. AppleScript Formatting sets
different fonts, sizes, and styles for each "part of speech" in the
AppleScript language, and the limit is on the total number of different
formatting elements, regardless of the total length in characters of
the script. That's why complex scripts (with a lot of formatting
changes) hit the limit sooner than simpler scripts (with, for example,
the same part of speech repeated over and over again).
This will be fixed in an upcoming release, sooner rather than later.
Chris Espinosa
Apple
Great, Chris! And thank you for the detailed reply. (I just _knew_ it had to
do with the formatting elements, but that didn't help me too much.;-))
--
Paul Berkowitz
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