Re: Bug in QXPScriptingAdditions.osax?
Re: Bug in QXPScriptingAdditions.osax?
- Subject: Re: Bug in QXPScriptingAdditions.osax?
- From: David Durkee <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:50:51 -0500
I got the following message from an old coworker about problems caused
by Quark's scripting addition:
You're gonna love this. Pierre found a problem that shows up in C6 and
is caused by QuarkXPress 6. They handle scripting by installing a
scripting addition (!?!?) and it seems to **** with events it has no
business ****ing with. Here's the bug report I sent to Quark:
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When QXPScriptingAdditions.osax is installed, some applications can no
longer get typeQDRectangle data out of Apple Events in its native
form, when sent from a script. Calling AEGetKeyPtr(&ae, keyword,
typeQDRectangle, &inType, &rect, sizeof(Rect), &inSize) returns -50.
You shouldn't be screwing with events, classes, enums, or coercions
that aren't yours. Further, applications don't need to install
scripting additions if the application is written correctly.
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I guess if they can't compete with Creator on the quality field, their
only hope was to screw with our Apple Events and make us look bad. But
at least I can work around the problem in our next release by
attempting to get it as a list instead of relying on AEGetKeyPtr to do
the coercion for me.
On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 10:40 AM, Emmanuel wrote:
Hello,
jj has found that QXPScriptingAdditions.osax induces major
misbehaviors of Smile (such as, hanging the machine up to the menu bar
clock for minutes).
Users have reported other oddities induced in AppleScript by
QXPScriptingAdditions.osax.
Since Smile is very "AppleScripty", the incompatibility with Smile is
a likely sign that QXPScriptingAdditions.osax is breaking something in
AppleScript.
If you script, you observe strange things and you have
QXPScriptingAdditions.osax installed, I would suggest considering the
possibility of un-installing it.
Emmanuel
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