On 7/3/05 10:14 pm, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 3/7/05 12:20 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> For over a year there has been an incompatibility between Script
>> Editor and Entourage: scripts created in SE will not save their
>> properties when run from Eratge Script menu. Apple changed file
>> formats, and Microsoft neglected to catch up.
>> 
>> Only fix: save the script using Smile (free) or Script Debugger ($199).
>> 
>> Smile can be found here:
>> 
>> <http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/downloads_smile.html>
> 
> Except that the newest versions of Smile (perhaps only from 2.7 on, but it
> may have been as early as 2.6, I forget) have the same problem.

2.6.9 works fine, but v2.7 uses the same data fork compiled scripts as
script editor and no longer retain properties.

I now use a shell script to store properties that need to be retained:

Do shell script "defaults write com.barryw.scriptName propertyName " &
quoted form of "newPropertyValue"

Set storedPropertyValue to (do shell script "defaults read
com.barryw.scriptName propertyName")

Obviously this means the script is no longer useable in OS 9 or Classic, but
since the new script file format doesn't work there either, I see this as no
great loss.


-- 
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out:
        <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>


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