Hi all,
I have compiled apps created in ASS 3.0 that works without any errors under 10.5
Now in Snow Leopard I receive random AS Timeout Error. Each time n a different “position” processing data. The apps calls in this case Entourage 2008 with latest patch.
The Snow Leopard is “Fresh and Clean” without any 3rd parts sw installed.
Somebody has suggestions?
Steve H.
While the current version of XCode doesn’t offer AS Studio as an option, it should still compile old code. Have you tried to re-compile?
Hi,
after some days and a lot of tests on both Leopard and Snow Leopard, finally we have isolated the problem. We suppose that the problem is caused by AppleScript when running under Snow Leopard. But we can’t be 100% sure.
We post here below the AS script, made by Script Editor (that is the smallest version of our real ASS application).
It gets information from each message in the Entourage database. It has been successfully tested a lot of times under Leopard with many different identities containing thousands of emails. It did run perfectly.
No problem at all. Instead, running on Snow Leopard, the same AS script simply causes Entourage to go to timeout, generating the -1712 error.
We tried both the 32 and 64 bit versions of our script on Snow Leopard. Same bad result. A few times it works, some other times it goes to timeout.
All the tests have been executed on different “clean” Macs (iMac, Mac Pro, Mac Book Pro) with Snow Leopard 10.6.1 and Entourage 2008 12.2.1. We heard that some others users have had troubles about timeout after running their scripts/apps on Snow Leopard.
Please, can somebody tell us whether this trouble is caused by an AppleScript’s bug when running on Snow Leopard? Or can the trouble related to the AppleScript scriptability of 3rd parts applications (Entourage, Photoshop…) that are not fully compatible with Snow Leopard?
Any answer or feedback would be greatly welcome. Thank you.
Please find here below the AS script we used on our tests:
property pEntourageStructure : missing value
tell application “Microsoft Entourage”
set folderList to (ID of every folder) as list
end tell
set pEntourageStructure to {}
set numFolders to count folderList
repeat with j from 1 to numFolders
set entourageFolderID to item j of folderList
StructureRecursive(entourageFolderID)
end repeat
set numFolders to count pEntourageStructure
set t1 to current date
repeat with j from 1 to numFolders
set folderID to item 2 of item j of pEntourageStructure
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set pFolderMessages to count messages in folder id folderID
end tell
repeat with m from 1 to pFolderMessages
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
tell message m of folder id folderID
set emailID to ID
end tell
-- Capture Categories
set categoryList to category of message id emailID
-- Capture Dates and Class
tell message id emailID
set emailSentDate to time sent
set emailReceivedDate to time received
set numAttachments to count attachments
if class is incoming message then
set emailClass to "incoming message" as string
else if class is outgoing message then
set emailClass to "outgoing message" as string
end if
-- Capture Sender
set displayName to (display name of sender) as Unicode text
set displayEmail to address of sender
-- Capture Subject and Body
set subjectRecipient to subject
set contentRecipient to content
end tell
end tell
end repeat
end repeat
set t2 to current date
set t3 to t2 - t1
on StructureRecursive(myObject)
tell application “Microsoft Entourage”
set folderName to name of folder id myObject
set numItem to count folders in folder id myObject
end tell
copy {folderName, myObject} to end of pEntourageStructure
if numItem > 0 then
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set folderList to (ID of every folder in folder id myObject) as list
end tell
repeat with i from 1 to numItem
set idObject to item i of folderList
StructureRecursive(idObject)
end repeat
end if
end StructureRecursive
Hagimeno,
I found a whole bunch of articles/forum messages around the web about similar incompatibilities with Entourage. I’d say the fault lies with Entourage not being fully compatible with 10.6. Try googling the phrase “snow leopard entourage applescript fails” and see if any of the results describe your problem.
Good luck. Tracking these things down after an OS upgrade always sucks. But we’re scripters, and we will prevail! 