Re: 10.2.3
Re: 10.2.3
- Subject: Re: 10.2.3
- From: "Chris Espinosa" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 15:05:04 -0800
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden>
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: 10.2.3
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On 12/23/02 2:07 PM, "Chris Espinosa" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> But, glory be! Long scripts now compile again, even in SD's Debugger
mode.
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>> Thanks be for that alone.
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> That's one fix among about 50. You can see the release notes at
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> http://www.apple.com/applescript/release_notes/191OSX.html
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Very impressive. I see several other bugs (mostly Unicode bugs) which I
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run into are now fixed. Also this one:
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"In AppleScript 1.6 through 1.9, compiling a script might cause it to
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unnecessarily launch an application referred to in a Tell block of that
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script. This has been fixed in AppleScript 1.9.1. [2838223]"
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Ah, yes.
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> Note that the pre-release software on the Developer Tools December 2000
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> release (also available on the Web) is a superset of 10.2.3; the
pre-release
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> version of System Events has the 10.2.3 fixes and can be used on any
version
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> of Mac OS X from 10.2 through 10.2.3.
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Is 'System Events' always running, like the Finder? Can one refer to
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'process "System Events"' with impunity in the pre-release GUI context? Or
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is it necessary to check whether it's around and launch it first if it
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isn't? I ask because Bill Cheeseman mentioned to someone that they could
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'System Events' as a Login item to make sure that's launched before trying
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to run some sort of GUI script. Is this necessary?
a) For the Processes class, Script Menu, Folder Actions, or UI Scripting to
work, System Events.app must be running.
b) As it has since the beginning, AppleScript will automatically launch an
app referred to in a Tell block if it's not already running.
The only circumstances in which you might need to launch System Events
explicitly are a) if it crashes or b) if you tell it to quit, but even in
those situations, your next use of Script Menu, the Processes class, or any
script that has a System Events 'tell' block should fire it up
automatically. The only function that doesn't automatically launch System
Events is Folder Actions, so in case System Events quits, Folder Actions
will be unavailable until you log out/log in again, or start it yourself.
Chris
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