Re: Script Editor freaks out
Re: Script Editor freaks out
- Subject: Re: Script Editor freaks out
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:16:07 -0500
What benefit do you get by producing AppleScript? It's not really a
backend kind of language. I also dont understand why you cant use
osacompile, though i wouldnt be surprised if it had the same limits.
If you just want to pretty-print the source, i believe there are 3p
tools that will do that.
On 1/17/08, Amandeep Singh <email@hidden> wrote:
> Ok, so we have a SDK in multiple languages. That SDK is actually
> described in XML, and we generate code for multiple languages at compile
> time. We use "Velocity" templates to generate that code.
>
> And now we need to add support for AS, which is almost done except for
> this issue.
>
> Does that explanation help?
>
> Thanks,
> Aman
>
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> On 17 Jan 2008, at 23:13, Amandeep Singh wrote:
>
> > We generate scripts in text format, and then manually copy-paste them
> > into script editor, so that formatting happens and syntax is checked.
> >
> > The scripts tend to go really big. When the file size reaches around
> > 400K, script editor stops formatting the scripts.
>
> You're likely hitting one of the AppleScript language's internal limits.
>
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Write a better code generator that produces more concise output /
> avoid using code generation in the first place / use another language
> that doesn't have such limitations.
>
> For more specific suggestions, provide more details about what your
> code generator needs to do and examples of its input and output.
>
> HTH
>
> has
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