Re: Why "Application" not "Bundle" default Script Editor doctype?
Re: Why "Application" not "Bundle" default Script Editor doctype?
- Subject: Re: Why "Application" not "Bundle" default Script Editor doctype?
- From: Jerry Krinock <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:37:48 -0700
On 2008 Jul, 26, at 13:20, Chris Page wrote:
Have the errors been reported using Bug Reporter? <http://bugreport.apple.com/
>
They have now.
If you have the bug numbers, please send them to me (you can send
them off-list) so I can be sure I've seen them.
Here you go, chief. Since Apple's Bug Reporter database is kept
secret, I'd rather send them on-list for the benefit of others...
Apple Bug ID Number: 6116900
Product/Version Script Editor 2.2
Title: Script Editor's Save defaults produce slow, non-functional and/
or annoying files
Summary: When performing a Save or Save As operation, the default File
Format and Options you get in the Save dialog should be those that
most people want. They should definitely be of a type that would work
on all Macs. Apple's Script Editor gets it wrong. There are three bugs
in this problem, but you'll fix them together so I've put them in one
Problem.
Bug Number 1:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Script Editor, open a document which has been saved with File
Format = Application Bundle and Startup Screen = false.
2. Make some changes to the document
3. Click "Save As" and look at the Save dialog
Expected Results:
File Format and all options should same as the original document was
Actual Results: File Format = Application (not Bundle) and Startup
Screen = true
Bug Number 2:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Script Editor, make a new document.
2. Type in some script.
3. Click "Save As" and look at the Save dialog
Expected Results: File Format should be one of the "Bundle" formats.
For reasons why, see "Notes" below
Actual Results: File Format = Script (not Bundle)
Bug Number 3: The ability to produce documents in a non-functional
file format such as "Script" and "Application" (see Notes below)
should be hidden away in Advanced options somewhere. "Script Bundle"
and "Application Bundle" should be the only formats available to
casual users.
Notes:
Regarding the File Format, the non-bundle types are severely
depracated. First of all, they run under Rosetta on Intel Macs, taking
a few seconds to launch on my Intel Mac Mini. Secondly, and most
important, if you email a regular AppleScript "Application" document
to someone, without zipping it, it will arrive as a Classic
application, and when you doubleclick it on a Mac without Classic
installed, which is probably the vast majority of Macs nowadays, it
won't run! Weird, but at least for me, repeatable. (Meaning that yes I
screwed more than one email recipient this way until I figured out the
problem.)
Regarding the Startup Screen, well, it should be self-evident. That
thing is annoying as hell.
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