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Re: Getting source text of a compiled script
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Re: Getting source text of a compiled script


  • Subject: Re: Getting source text of a compiled script
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:47:19 +0100

Kumar Shailove wrote:

>I need to do some text level operations in thousands of my compiled
>scripts.
>Opening and then processing them in a host application like Script
>Editor or Debugger really becomes cumbersome and time-consuming.
>
>Is there any way so that I can get the entire text of the compiled
>script in a variable and proceed with that variable without actually
>opening the script in Script Editor/Debugger.

I know Jon's Commands for OS 9 installs a script-to-text coercion so try the OS X version; it may well install this coercion as well. If not, it'd be pretty simple to write a suitable osax. Or you could just run the slower SE/SD script overnight when the bouncing windows won't bother you.

HTH

has
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