Re: Script Editor 2 beta feedback
Re: Script Editor 2 beta feedback
- Subject: Re: Script Editor 2 beta feedback
- From: Tim Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:20:47 -0500
Hi Tom,
Comments below...
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 01:59 PM, Tom Robinson wrote:
Hi folks
Apple suggest this as 1 of 2 forums for Script Editor 2 beta feedback,
so here's mine:
1. Either I've missed something or the option to suppress system
events in the results log has disappeared. I'd like to see it return.
I'm not sure I understand completely. The old script editor has two
check boxes, one is "Show Events" and the other is "Show Event
Results". In the new script editor, there is a popup button that lets
you choose the same things: Log Nothing, Log Events, and Log Events and
Results. I'm not sure about the "system events" that you are referring
to.
2. Sometimes hangs when opening a document: If Script Editor is
already open and I double-click on a compiled script in the Finder, or
drag it onto the Script Editor icon in the Dock, Script Editor will
often hang with the pizza-of-death. It's not using any significant
CPU when hung.
I've not personally seen or heard about this. Is there anything
interesting about the script? Are you able to reproduce it reliably? If
so, please let me know, as I would like to track this down.
3. Even with the new find & replace you still don't seem to be able to
change the case of a variable name once it's been set.
Unfortunately this doesn't have anything to do with the find and
replace code, but is a peculiarity of AppleScript itself. It is "case
preserving", in that it will always use the case of a word as it was
first discovered/used in your script.
4. Having the info pane discard the text when you save a compiled
script is misleading.
The description is stored in the resource fork of scripts (and if you
open a script that was saved with a description from an earlier version
of the old script editor, you will see that it does indeed show up in
the info panel). However, we aren't allowed to save things in the
resource fork of files any longer (the exception for SE 2 is when you
save as an application which does preserve the description), which
means that the description will be lost. This is true of the latest
version of the old script editor as well, as it too is saving as data
fork only. We have a solution in place for this, but it won't be
available until the final release of SE 2.
OS X 10.2.2.
Cheers
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Thanks for your feedback Tom!
Tim Bumgarner
AppleScript Engineering
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