Hi Folks, I've posted some updates to the JavaScript OSA documentation on the JavaScript OSA area of the LNS web site. Changes include: - revisions to bring...
Mark Alldritt
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Mar 13, 2000 8:01 am
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Hi Again, Just a quick update to let you know that I'm still working to resolve the JavaScript OSA component loading problem that some of you are experiencing....
Mark Alldritt
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Mar 13, 2000 8:05 am
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... Except that the link should read ".html" not ".com" at the end :) http://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/JavaScriptOSA/index.html is the fixed link. And...
Jacob Kaplan-Moss
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Mar 13, 2000 8:08 am
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Hi Folks, As some of you know all too well, JavaScript OSA fails to load on some MacOS 8.6 and 9.0 systems. I've developed the first in a series of diagnostic...
Mark Alldritt
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Mar 15, 2000 5:51 pm
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First off, is this thing still on? I haven't gotten any list mail for a few weeks... ... I downloaded the MacOS 9.0.4 update a few days ago, and since then, ...
Jacob
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Apr 12, 2000 5:40 am
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... This is interesting indeed. With this extra clue, I'll look some more into what might be causing the problem. This issue has pretty much stalled my ...
Mark Alldritt
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Apr 12, 2000 4:42 pm
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... It does, the STRING.split() and ARRAY.join() methods. ... It is fast, relative to other ways of manipulating text and lists in vanilla AppleScript,...
arthur j knapp
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Apr 12, 2000 5:43 pm
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... Thank you Mark and Arthur -- I was caught up on trying to access the "text item delimiters" property from JSOSA, and handn't thought to whip out my...
Jacob
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Apr 12, 2000 6:51 pm
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... The simplest way is to create some AppleScript handlers to do this for you: var as = new MacOS.OSA(MacOS.OSA.AppleScript); as.compile(" on setTID(newVal) ...
Mark Alldritt
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Apr 12, 2000 7:36 pm
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Mark, Just want to thank you for the incredible work you are doing with the JavaScript for OSA. Its helping me a lot to debug functions or syntax gotchas that...
Emmanuel. M. Decarie
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Apr 13, 2000 1:56 am
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Hi Folks, I've put JavaScript OSA 1.0d7 up on our server for you all to download. This build addresses some serious problems with the d6 build that should ...
Mark Alldritt
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Apr 13, 2000 5:47 pm
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Hi Folks, Wow, this mailing list has a huge reach! There are 17 people registered at OneList/eGroups, and by Sunday evening there have been 540 downloads of ...
Mark Alldritt
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Apr 17, 2000 5:03 pm
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... Mark, it's that the possibilities are really huge. I plan to use it to test a system I am writing in JavaScript, piece by piece, _outside_ the Netscape...
Aldo Bergamini
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Apr 18, 2000 9:24 am
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Mark, I list a few problems that I get with the sample scripts. There must be a lot of problems integrating JavaScript to the MacOS system. Actually pure ...
Aldo Bergamini
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Apr 18, 2000 9:24 am
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... Error # -108 is a memory full error; I get this all the time (G3, OS9, JSOSA 1.0d7) in a number of cases. I wonder if increasing memory to the script...
Jacob
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Apr 19, 2000 3:27 am
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Does JSOSA support the try/catch/throw features of JavaScript? If so, can these be made to work with errors in the same manner as the try...on error handlers...
Jacob
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Apr 19, 2000 3:33 am
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... Thats right, its an out of memory error. The solution comes in two forms: 1 you need to increase the memory partition of whatever script editing tool you...
Mark Alldritt
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Apr 19, 2000 3:48 am
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... Mark, thanks for pointing to the amount of memory that the JS system needs. I brought the Script Editor of System 8.6 to a hefty 6000K of used memory and...
Aldo Bergamini
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Apr 19, 2000 12:25 pm
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... This is indeed odd. I tried the following on both MacOS 8.6 and 9.0.4 running under the Script Editor and Script Debugger 2.0b4 and it worked as it should...
Mark Alldritt
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Apr 19, 2000 3:36 pm
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... Mark, well, I have no clue either. You have nothing that depends on the CarbonLib? ... BBEdit is my favorite application to write code. So I have it right...
Aldo Bergamini
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Apr 20, 2000 9:27 am
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Hello Folks, We seem to have found a possible cause for the component loading problem that some of you have been experiencing. The Idle Time extension...
Mark Alldritt
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May 15, 2000 8:58 pm
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... This is not the cause here. I'd be prepared to believe that virtually anything Netscape or AOL installed would cause trouble but I don't have Idle Time on...
John Delacour
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May 15, 2000 10:43 pm
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... S***! Oh well. Thanks for the quick feedback. I'll keep looking. Cheers -Mark ... Mark Alldritt Late Night Software Ltd. Phone:...
Mark Alldritt
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May 15, 2000 11:13 pm
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what about the 'iDo' extension and control panel? It uses applescript and some kind of time function as well. It caused me a lot of trouble for a day. I...
Chris Heidecker
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May 17, 2000 12:14 am
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Mark, You may not know that there are a number of versions of idletime floating around. It was written by Userland Software for use with Frontier, then...
David A. Bayly
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May 17, 2000 11:09 am
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Javascript is not on my immediate agenda, so I've been taking things very slowly. Here is my experience in the past week. Since I had other work to do, I...
John Delacour
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May 20, 2000 1:40 pm
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Hi folks, I'm sorry about my lack of progress over the last while. However, Script Debugger 2.0 is now shipping and our upcoming SD 2.0.1 update all but done ...
Mark Alldritt
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Jun 6, 2000 7:29 pm
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Hi Folks, I've just uploaded a new build of JavaScript OSA: http://www.latenightsw.com/archives/jsosa1.0d8.sit.hqx This version contains some functional...
Mark Alldritt
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Jun 14, 2000 10:18 pm
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Hi Folks, I'm, happy to announce that I'm finally making progress on JavaScript OSA again. The component loading problem that held me up for so long appears...
Mark Alldritt
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Jun 19, 2000 6:34 pm
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... Certainly seems to be solved here. Great work! ... Because of the problems with earlier versions on my system, I stopped bothering with Javascript until...