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- Welcome to the ScriptServer readme.
-
- Version 1.0 alpha
-
- ScriptServer is a Shareware AppleScript OSA build program. It compiles, it
- decompiles, it executes and it returns results. What more could you want?
-
- ScriptServer is NOT an editor. It can be used from other editors though.
- Notably, the MPW Shell. This way you can edit scripts that are larger than
- 30,000 characters and support search and replace. MPW's even scriptable,
- although in some weird moon man language. You can compile scripts from the
- AppelScript Script Editor but you'll need to convert the MPW include script to
- AppleScript. If you do, drop me a copy. I imagine that it would be easy to
- call ScriptServer from BBEdit too. Maybe someone'll write an extension...
-
- The trick for MPW & ToolServer is to use Ed Lai's SendAE tool and the scripts
- provided to communicate with ScriptServer. The SSCompile script even supports
- the C preprocesser and our custom UltScript processor for those of you without
- the C compiler or the inclination to use it. These preprocessers allow you to
- use #include in your scripts. Nifty for those shared subroutines!
-
- The only drag is that AppleScript keeps asking where your applications are and
- you have to tell it. Once a script exists though, it uses that to remember
- where the applications are. So, once a script exists, copy it somewhere else
- instead of moving it. You should leave a copy with your source so that it can
- keep you from going nuts pointing to your apps over and over again.
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-
- I hope ScriptServer meets your MPW/ToolServer AppleScript needs. All I ask is
- a small Shareware fee if you use this. It's $10 for individuals using this for
- fun and profit and $20 per copy (or $200 for a site licence) for companies to
- use this in their commercial or in-house projects. I provide support and bug
- fixes to everyone and promptly cash all checks. ;)
-
- Send money, comments, suggestions, bug reports and directed insults to me at:
-
- Jon Pugh
- 1861 Landings Drive
- Mountain View, CA 94043
- jonpugh@netcom.com
- (415) 691-6643
- jonpugh@netcom.com
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-
- Also, look for my freeware AppleScript Scripting Additions, Jon’s Commands,
- available at a fine archive near you. If you don't see it there, just ask
- someone to upload it.
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- ScriptServer, Jon’s Commands, AppleScript and QuicKeys 3.0 all go together! In
- Jon’s Commands is a "run script resource" command. It likes 'Scpt' resources
- (the Script Editor gets confused by multiple 'scpt' resources in a file). With
- ScriptServer you can easily create these or other custom resources (or modify
- ones you create with the Script Editor). This allows you to get around a
- memory leak in the RunScript osax and package your script as a single file.