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Re: Why does opening any script editor open many other apps?
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Re: Why does opening any script editor open many other apps?


  • Subject: Re: Why does opening any script editor open many other apps?
  • From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:07:37 -0600
  • Z-usanet-msgid: XID272TDosHl3088X34

> On Apr 15, 2015, at 11:32:AM, Stockly, Ed <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Do you mean when you open an AppleScript in a Script Editor?

Both Smile, Script Editor and Applescript Editor.

> If so, what's happening is that many applications (especially those that have plug ins) have dictionaries that can be updated and modified. Your scripts have tells to those dictionaries and the script needs to access the dictionaries in order to compile. The dictionaries get updated at runtime when the app launches, so for script editor to have access to the full dictionary, the app has to launch. (also if you

This happens when I open the editors without opening a script.

> In ScriptDebugger there's an option to open the script without launching the apps, but even then I think the apps have to launch if you compile.
>
> Ed Stockly
> LA Times
>
> From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
> Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 10:23 AM
> To: AppleScript Digest <email@hidden>
> Subject: Why does opening any script editor open many other apps?
>
>> Whenever I open any Applescript editor at least six other apps also open. see image below. Top image was before I opened Smile and bottom image after.
>>
>> There has got to be a cure, PLEASE?

Robert Poland
Fort Collins CO


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