Re: Any Utilities to Decomplie a Script :-(
Re: Any Utilities to Decomplie a Script :-(
- Subject: Re: Any Utilities to Decomplie a Script :-(
- From: julifos <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:46:17 +0200
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A sad story.
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I developed a rather long script over the last several days designed to
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ultimately run from the script menu under Claris Emailer. Debugged and
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worked fine when running as a stand-alone script. Then I tried to run it
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from the Emailer Script menu. Locked up my machine :-( Looked like one of
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the applications in a "tell" was trying to get my attention but I
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couldn't switch to it... Emailer wouldn't give up control. After force
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quitting Emailer, the script will no longer open with Script Editor.
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I can look at it with HexEdit and it looks like everything is there but
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tokenized. So I am wondering if anyone knows of a utility that will
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salvage all or part of it? I know it's a long shot, but I thought I'd ask
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:-)
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Also any ideas on what could be going on to cause such a thing? It looks
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like Filemaker is throwing off an error message in the background and
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waiting for a response and because I can't switch to it to respond to it,
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Emailer just sits there and waits forever. Before the thing
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self-destructed, I tried surrounding the whole script with a "try", but
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that didn't help. BTW, it also didn't respond to command-period either.
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Steve
There are not such utilities. Script Debugger uses to save a copy of the
code as plain text in a TEXT resource, which is a cool invention to recover
a damaged scpt, but not very useful for you :(
Anyway, perhaps you can share a copy of the damaged script, so some folk at
this list can try anything... Or try opening it in a different script editor
(eg, Smile) or decompile it via "load script":
load script alias "path:to:damaged script"
Or (save scpt's ascii contents to a plain text file and...)
read alias "path:to:text file" as script
JJ
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