info about the Public Beta of Script Editor 2

By Xavier Rissley. Original by Lionel - 02/08/2003 12:46:20 CEST - Category: Software

Thanks to Vric for bringing us this information about the beta of ScriptEditor 2.0:

Important for those CLassic application scriptwriters : As I had the opportunity to mention it on the Emailer-Talk mailing list a few months ago, the 2.0 beta versions of the script editor do save the script in the DATA fork, which wil not work in Classic applications or under Mac OS 9.
The Beta 2 version is a bit less bad than the first one; its scripts are not crashing the Classic apps that try and run them. But it still doesn't work. Previous versions would save exisiting scripts under their original format (that is, a script for OS X is in DATA, but a script written for OS 9 remains in RESORCE and still works after edition).
So those who script Classic apps must beware never to modify these scripts with Script Editor 2.0 beta or 2.0 beta 2, but with the 1.9 verion that came with the system, or better with the French and free script editor Smile (which, by the way, lifted the 32k limitation and integrated a search/replace function ages ago).
If the harm is already done, the only way to get a Classic script edited in Script Editor 2.0 is to save it again with Smile, that can be found here:
www.satimage.fr/software/fr