Re: [MacPerl] HELP PLEASE!

["Jefferson R. Lowrey" <lowrey@postoffice.sells.com>]

At 10:11 AM -0700 7/8/98, feng wrote:
>I already spent more than 10 hours on this problem, but still don't even have
>a clue of what went wrong.

I hate it when that happens!

>
>I wrote a MacPerl script that works fine on my machine.  But when I move the
>script to another computer, everything works except the calls to other
>applications using MacPerl::DoAppleScript.

So, all of the Perl works fine, but not the AppleScript?  Maybe you should
post a sample of the perl code anyway?  But, I think it's an AppleScript
problem.

>
>I already checked that AppleScript extension was on and current (May 97, same
>as the one on my computer).  RAM should not be the problem, since the other
>computer had more RAM and virtue memory than mine.  I also reviewed the paths
>to the applications.  But even when I just removed the paths, the computer
>just would not even ask me for the locations of the other applications.  The
>computer seemed to ignore anything in the section of MacPerl::DoAppleScript.

You should look at Bill Cheeseman's web page for his info on making
portable AppleScript applications - it's not as straight forward as fully
qualifing the paths.  Bill's page is here:

http://oasis.bellevue.k12.wa.us/cheeseb/

More particularly, what you are looking for is here:

http://oasis.bellevue.k12.wa.us/cheeseb/tips/launchbycreator.html#Telling

&

http://oasis.bellevue.k12.wa.us/cheeseb/tips/tellbyvariable.html#Variable

-Jefferson R. Lowrey
Computer Support Specialist
Sells Printing Company



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