Received OS 10.1 yesterday AM and the changes are great!
I’ve been trying out the Word X Test Drive, If Entourage X is anything like this it’s going to be
Great! I can’t wait.
My biggest gripe right now is not being able to run my Apple Scripts while using Entourage 2001 in Classic.
Unless you are using Entourage SE (which has no applescript), you should be able to run most of your scripts, even the ones that use scripting additions, as long as the scripting addition is used within a classic tell block, such as 'tell application "Microsoft Entourage"'. Unfortunately I am fairly meticulous about calling them outside tell blocks where possible to avoid possible conflicts. That may be your problem.
There were a number of things which didn't work in OS 10.0.x, especially any scripts calling the Finder. Most of Finder scripting, including 'process (for running applications) has been fixed in OS 10.1, so it would be worth trying again now.
Here's the story with scripting additions (about 75% of my scripts use Akua Sweets or Jon's Commands): they have not yet been carbonized for OS X. So even when Entourage X exists, those scripts won't work. In fact, many of the script that work with Entourage 2001 in Classic (the ones that call scripting additions within the Entourage tell block) now won't work in Entourage X. Some of them can be re-written more arduously without the additions, and I will do so where possible. Some absolutely depend on the additions and can't be made to work otherwise.
Now for the very good news: Eric Grant has just announced yesterday that he has released an addition for scripting addition developers that will allow them to release versions which will work in all OS's: pre-PPC, regular PPC, and OS X. (i.e. OS 7,8,9,10). So it won't be too long, I hope, before all the scripting additions we've been depending on will work in OS 10.1 as well. I may hold up on any particularly arduous re-writes until this happens.
Then all the scripts will work again.
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Paul Berkowitz
