Applets and Rosetta
Applets and Rosetta
- Subject: Applets and Rosetta
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:28:23 -0400
On one of my Macs, I installed Snow Leopard without Rosetta to see
what would happen. When I tried to run an old-style single-file
AppleScript applet, a system alert came up telling me I had to install
Rosetta and offering to do so on the spot. I gave it the OK, and it
installed Rosetta quite quickly. It did not then automatically run the
applet, however; I had to re-run it -- and it worked.
Pretty cool. But this will be a surprise to unsophisticated users who
happen to run one of the kazillions of old-style applets floating
around on the Web. For example, the old-style applets that come with
my commercial products.
One of my products, UI Actions, runs scripts. When, on the GM version
of Snow Leopard, it tried to run an old-style applet, the script did
not run and the system did not offer to install Rosetta. I haven't yet
had time to try this on the release version of Snow Leopard, but I
assume it's the same as the GM version. So I apparently have to write
an update, maybe just updating the example scripts to script bundles
and revising the documentation.
--
Bill Cheeseman
email@hidden
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