Re: Script Debugger goes renegade !
Re: Script Debugger goes renegade !
- Subject: Re: Script Debugger goes renegade !
- From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 17:22:11 -0700
Entity Andrew Oliver spoke thus:
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but I don't understand why you need to run
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two copies of SD on two separate machines.
Tally Ho!
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Most people I know (including myself) tend to work on one machine at at
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time.
If and when you are scripting a network it is sometimes necessary to have
the network open while scripting.
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SD's license enforcement checks that only one copy of Script Debugger is
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running at a time. That doesn't mean SD can not be INSTALLED on other
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machines, just that it can't be RUNNING.
And you know this for a fact? Or because the developer said so?
The reality is even more insidious, bordering on sinister.
SD somehow "knows" when a copy has been running on a networked machine even
when the offending copy is closed before connecting!
So the solution is to logoff and relog in BEFORE connecting. Now, I might
logoff every 2 months when I update my OS...
If you DON'T logoff first, your script will spin wheels for several minutes
finally returning error "An Appleshare Error Has Occurred" OR "The Apple
Event Has Timed Out" if you are running an OSAX.
Worse yet, after you click OK at the dialog, Finder will spin wheels for
about 6 minutes until an agonizing timeout occurs. I usually forcequit both
instead of waiting.
As if that weren't bad enough, Sharing prefpanel is unable to connect and
disconnect while the damn thing is happening, so you have to forcequit that
too in order to relogin!
Of course, that sends an error message to the other machine too, it's a big
ole' gnarly mess.
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That, coupled with the fact that SD doesn't need to be running in order to
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run scripts created with it
Note that this will happen even when the script in question is an
Application AND both copies of SD are not running!
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, means you should be able to develop all your
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scripts on one machine and deploy them on other machines without any
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problems.
Even if that were true (and it will be when we live in Utopia) each editor
renders the comment field and colors differently. Opening an SD script in
another editor is disorienting and depressing, then when you save it and the
newer copy is updated to another machine then opening it in SD on THAT
machine it is all different!
See, it gets all complicated.
-- Rachel
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