Re: [MACTCL] Bugs in Tclapplescript.shlb

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

Jim Ingham wrote:

> On 3/12/02 12:31 PM, "Bernard Desgraupes   (by way of Jon Guyer)"
> <bde...@ea...> wrote:
>
>
> > 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.
>
> Yes it does, it takes the -context switch.  You can say:
>
> AppleScript execute -context contextToken <Some Script Data>
>

Oh, that's right, sorry, I was too quick.
There still is this risk of a clash between "--" as a switch and "--" as a comment sign at
the beginning of an AppleScript script.
This means that we should _always_ use the -- switch in "AppleScript execute" to be safe.

Cheers

Bernard