Re: How did Camino rewrite my scripts?
Re: How did Camino rewrite my scripts?
- Subject: Re: How did Camino rewrite my scripts?
- From: Michael Heinz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 07:16:12 -0500
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 06:08 AM, Thomas England wrote:
Imagine my
surprise when I began to open the copies in the Script Editor (OS X
10.2.4)
and found that almost all instances of "Navigator" had already been
changed
to "Camino".
How'd they do that? Could this power be misused?
Thomas,
My understanding is that, in a "compiled" script, references to system
objects are just that - compiled references. In other words, your
scripts didn't change, what happened was that when you opened them in
ScriptEditor, it had to "decompile" them back into text to display them
on screen. At that point, ScriptEditor tried to dereference the link to
Navigator and found Camino instead.
This is the same mechanism that causes Favorites to continue to work
even after you deleted Navigator and replaced it with Camino.
Personally, I find it pretty impressive.
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