Opening scripts without evaluation?

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Is there a way for Script Editor (or third party script editor) to open a .scpt file without trying to evaluate it? I have some scripts that send commands to a remote machine, but if that machine is not on the network, or not responsive for some reason, the script will hang while trying to open. I just want to see the text content of the script so I can make some additional scripts based on these. Seems like there should be a modifier key I could hold down while opening to tell script editor to just open the text file.

thanks
Andy

#2

Hi Andy,

Are you running scripts from the Script Editor? If so, why?

You can get the text of a Compiled Script or script application by loading it and coercing to string. e.g.


set f to choose file
set s to load script f
set script_text to s as string

gl,

#3

Thanks Kel, but no joy yet. When I run your script and choose a compiled script I get the following error:

Applescript Error
Can’t make <> into type string.

And no, I’m not trying to run these scripts from Script Editor, I just want to refer to these scripts as I write new ones in Script Editor.
When I try to run these scripts normally (via hotkey) they also hang until applescript times out as the remote machine the scripts are trying to command is not there.

Andy

#4

This is a bit of a “rock and hard place” situation. To run Kel’s script, you have to load the script and the Script Editor then tries to resolve references within it as it opens - the Script Editor always assumes you want to run it, not just look at it. Kel’s script will always work if the references in the script are resolvable - i.e., the shared volume is mounted when you do it.

Since it sounds as if you want to refer back to the constructions you used or to grab handlers that worked, I recommend that you set the script to text with the share point available, and then save the text or write it to a text file. This has the advantage that you now have a searchable copy of each of the scripts you care about that you can refer to even when the share point is not available.