Re: Osaxen and Intel MBP's or iMacs
Re: Osaxen and Intel MBP's or iMacs
- Subject: Re: Osaxen and Intel MBP's or iMacs
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:14:01 -0800
- Thread-topic: Osaxen and Intel MBP's or iMacs
On 3/2/06 10:48 AM, "Christopher Nebel" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2006, at 8:08 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>
>> On 3/1/06 1:33 PM, "Daniel Jalkut" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Emmanuel is right - the Osax will have to match the executing
>>> application's architecture. So it has everything to do with what
>>> application is running your script. If you wanted to make it runnable
>>> from anywhere, you could probably resort to saving it as a script
>>> application, and then selecting the "Run in Rosetta" checkbox from
>>> the Get Info dialog in the Finder.
>>
>> And do you see such a checkbox? Only on a MacTel computer, perhaps?
>> On PPC
>> 10.4.5, the only checkbox for script applications is to "Open in
>> the Classic
>> environment". So there's no way for the script developer on a PPC
>> box to
>> make his script application using a PPC osax such as 24U Appearance
>> Osax
>> workable on a MacTel.
>
> Sure there is -- don't build Universal. Really. If you know you
> require a PPC-only library, then build your app PPC-only.
It was not clear to me, still on a PPC computer, that an applet made on that
PPC computer would be PPC-only and would not have this problem. I had
extrapolated, incorrectly it seems, from the information you'd given us
previously that AppleScript itself will "just work" on MacIntels, that
somehow applets would run natively there. Even applets made on a PPC box.
Evidently not - that's good, at least as far as the issue with PPC osaxen
goes. It also makes sense - since I don't know how they suddenly would be
recompiled for Intel on an Intel box - but I was prepared to believe you
could do anything, Chris, ;-) I know I can choose to make Universal Binaries
of Studio apps in Xcode 2.2.on my PPC computer; I thought that perhaps all
applets made in OS 10.4.x Script Editor were Universal Binaries built-in,
even though that does seem farfetched. Good to hear that's not the case.
So just to be clear - script applications (applets) made on a PPC computer
remain fully PPC? Do they not appear with the two MacIntel and Run with
Rosetta checkboxes when downloaded to a MacIntel computer? Is there
something about them (and other PPC-only apps) that makes their PPC-ness
apparent on a MacIntel? (It would be nice if such apps had a "Runs with
Rosetta" indicator, even if dimmed and locked, in Get Info on MacIntels.)
So to make Universal Binary applets you have to make them on a MacIntel? And
you do it by checking the appropriate box in Get Info after you save it as
an Application? Or is it also available there in the Save As menu of Script
Editor?
--
Paul Berkowitz
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