Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl, Mac OS 8, and AppleScript

[Peter Westlake <peter@harlequin.co.uk>]

At 13:17 1999-02-23 -0500, you wrote:
>On 2/23/1999 at 14:32, peter@harlequin.co.uk (Peter Westlake) wrote:
>
>> The MPW Shell in which I'm running the MacPerl tool has 9MB. The ToolServer
>> in which I have just run it has 40MB. It actually managed to display the
>> dialog in the simplified script three or four times, and run the app in
>> the original script, and I was just beginning to jump up and down and think
>> the problem was solved when I tried to run the original script a second
>> time, and the machine froze. Command-Control-Power brought it back this time.
>> I didn't quit the ToolServer in between runs.
>
>Since nobody else seems to have resolved this, I'll take a shot. How about:
>
>You said that you are running this with MPW Shell 3.5d6 and I assume that you
>are using ToolServer 3.5d6 as well. This is Preview Release stuff and maybe
>there is something odd about it versus the MacPerl MPW Tool in the context of
>what you are trying to do? If your problems arose about the time you installed
>the Preview Release, that would be suggestive of some relationship (tho I am
>also using it and haven't had any bad things happen).
>
>What happens if you just run your script from MacPerl itself and bypass MPW
>altogether?

That works! There's a message wending its way through the list server
to that effect at the moment. It seems to take quite a while for mail
to be out. Well spotted, though!

I don't know whether the MPW shell being a preview is significant,
because I switched to that before starting the present work. One
interesting thing is that I can run my application from the MPW
shell, using "app -wait filename", without any problems. That
suggests that *some* AppleEvent things work in the shell, so maybe
the problem could be in the MacPerl tool after all?

Peter.


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