My first question, please be gentle (stack overflow)
My first question, please be gentle (stack overflow)
- Subject: My first question, please be gentle (stack overflow)
- From: Matt Gregory <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:57:07 -0400
Hi All,
Usually I lurk around on a list a while before posting. But in
this case I've got a problem that's driving me nuts. Google isn't
helping and neither is this list's archives. Perhaps my search-fu
is weak.
I've written a script that reads through my iTunes Library, creates a
list of unique artists, calls an
Amazon.com web service for each one to
find an album list, does some date comparison to filter out anything
with a release date older than 7 days prior, and finally writes it all
to an HTML file and loads it in Safari. The end result is a table
showing me what new albums of artists in my Library are coming out or
have come out in the last week.
The problem:
This all works fine while running in the Script Editor (OS X
10.3.9). But when I save the script as an Application and run it,
I get the error saying the script "could not be saved because the stack
overflowed." This error always happens at the end and the output
is always displayed and always looks fine. I can even modify the
script to have it look for everything for the last few years (to make
the output huge) and it still all works fine except the stack
overflowed error pops up at the very end. I've tried ""-ing out
all my variables in loops, changing my string concatenation to using
lists instead and nothing helps.
But wait, there's more: I also have a strange behavior in Script
Editor where for some reason (I can't reproduce) I get the error "could
not save file." when trying to save the script in any format.
Sometimes this problem goes away by itself and after some more editing
it will save the next time I try and sometimes I have to cut-and-paste
the script into a new editor and save it there. I wonder if the
two problems are related, since they both have "saving" in common?
I'm hoping this is a common thing that will be easy for someone to
answer. I'm not doing any recursion. I do have one nested
loop, but the error never occurs in the middle of processing. And
I am putting together a pretty long string (the HTML output), but
again, the error occurs after it's been used and the output is
displayed. And oh yes, the script file's permissions are
fine. I guess I could +rw for everybody, I haven't tried that
yet, but I'd be surprised if it helped. Any advice is greatly
appreciated!
matt.
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