[MACTCL] Bugs in Tclapplescript.shlb

[Bernard D. <bde...@ea...>]

[Originally reported to alphatcl-developers]:


Hello,

I'm currently developping an AppleScript Menu and enhancing the 
AppleScript mode for
Alpha8 : everything goes fine except for two problems (a bug and a 
mistake) I have found
in the Tclapplescript shared library. I'm not sure if this is the 
right place to report
them, so I'll mention them here and please forward them or tell me 
whom I should send them
to.

Here are the two problems
1-  this is with the "AppleScript execute" command. When the first 
two characters of your
script are a comment sign (double dash) the interpreter gets confused 
and thinks it is an
option : it sends an error message :
"Error, no value given for switch etc," followed by the entire text 
of your script.
To avoid this, the code for the tclOSAExecuteCmd (in tclMacOSA.c) 
should be made more
robust. To tell the truth I don't really see the necessity of a check 
for an "--" option
since this command doesn't have any switch.
Anyway, as a temporary and very simple workaround in my Tcl code, I 
have inserted a blank
space at the beginning of the text of the script I transmit to 
"AppleScript execute" :
proc Scrp::doExecute {text} {
     AppleScript execute " $text"
}

2- Not really a bug, just a mistake in the doc. It says that the 
syntax to delete a
context is
     AppleScript delete scriptName

This is not true. The syntax must be
     AppleScript delete what scriptName

where 'what' is either "context" or "script".

Cheers

Bernard


BTW this AppleScript Menu will help solving several problems of 
interapplication
communication when the Apple Events syntax is not available.






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