Re: Finder scripting dies
Re: Finder scripting dies
- Subject: Re: Finder scripting dies
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:20:37 -0700
On 10/16/03 5:37 PM, "Jon Pugh" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At 1:19 PM -0700 10/16/03, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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> That has been my experience too. But my user is getting the problem
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> consistently no matter how often he relaunches the app, the Finder, or
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> reboots. OS 10.2.8 6R73.
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> For the first time, a user of
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> one of my run-only scripts has reported the same bug which until now I've
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> only seen in a script editor.
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A run only script cannot be decompiled, so I'm not sure how they're seeing
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this. It doesn't generally need to know the Finder's terms in order to run,
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and that would manifest as a run-time error.
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> Can't get <<class cdis>> of <<class cfol>> "ili 2:Users:raulqr:Sync
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> Entourage-Address Book 1.2.11:" of application "Finder".
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Presumably this is the error. I have to presume that the path is correct, but
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there is no error number displayed, which would tell us why the Finder can't
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provide the property requested. Given that the terminology isn't present, I
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would guess that the Finder is, once again, busy and not responding in time,
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to either the property get or the get terminology events.
Path seems to be correct. I can ask him for a screenshot to get the error
number. When I sent him a workaround for that error, the Finder just errored
on something else. And other scripts errored to, also on Finder commands.
This is a self-standing applet. A different app that fails on the same
Finder commands also calls two other apps as well - Entourage and Apple's
Address Book. They're never too busy to respond - only the Finder has this
problem.
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My first guess is that the user is running something else which is hogging the
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Finder. What context are they running your script within? Just as a
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standalone app from the desktop? Via the script menu?
Standalone app. And he tried it again immediately after rebooting - the
Finder should not be too busy. I suppose you could have some haxies or
something.
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I wonder if the Finder is busy telling the script to run or something stupid
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like that?
Not in the script it doesn't. Otherwise? I wonder why just this user would
have this problem.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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