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Re: Abs function broken on leopard?
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Re: Abs function broken on leopard?


  • Subject: Re: Abs function broken on leopard?
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:52:51 -0700

On Mar 19, 2008, at 8:20 AM, Loren Ryter wrote:

Set r to abs (-1)

Returns:

-1 doesn't understand the abs message.

Is this function broken on leopard?  It works on Tiger.

What's the replacement? I suppose I can multiply n by -1 if n < 0, but
that's a drag.


In a related question, is there any comprehensive lookup to translate named
apple events into the command they relate to?


I found this bug when I was getting a message from a studio project:

"-1.0 doesn't understand the <<event MATHABS>> message."

I suppose I should have known that was "abs" but didn't make the connection
immediately. I would like a way to lookup "MATHABS".

That's not part of the standard install -- it came from some third- party scripting addition, which apparently didn't migrate over. (Or you changed from a PowerPC to an Intel Mac, and the addition is Power- PC only.)



--Chris Nebel AppleScript Engineering

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