Re: System Events showing "not scriptable" (Tiger)
Re: System Events showing "not scriptable" (Tiger)
- Subject: Re: System Events showing "not scriptable" (Tiger)
- From: Allen Watson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 10:09:47 -0700
This sentence, "This was working fine under Panther, and during the
first six days of
running Panther", should have said, "This was working fine under
Panther, and during the first six days of running Tiger".
On 5/7/05, Allen Watson <email@hidden> wrote:
> I'm running Tiger. A script of mine contains this code:
>
> tell application "System Events" to set firstApp to item 1 of (get
> every process whose frontmost is true)
>
> This was working fine under Panther, and during the first six days of
> running Panther, but this morning, it broke. It gave an error saying
> it could not "get every «class prcs» whose frontmost is true". When I
> attempted to look at this in Script Debugger, it showed the raw class
> code instead of "process". I tried opening the Dictionary of System
> Events, and SD reported it could not load the dictionary because the
> application is not scriptable!!
>
> Anyone seen this? Any clues about how to fix it? (I'll be restarting
> the computer soon as a first shot.)
>
> Coincidentally (and probably unrelated), this morning I also
> discovered that all the Dashboard widgets I'd installed above the
> default number had vanished. So there is something weird going on on
> my system, apparently.
>
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