Work with a set of additional tools for AppleScripts management on your Mac. Check out the options for basic scripting, content search, previewing, component adjustment, limitation activation and removal, dictionary comparisons, debugging, backup creation, etc.
Script Debugger is an authoring tool for AppleScripts. AppleScript is a language for creating script files that control computer actions and applications. It is basically a language for automating tasks.
Script Debugger is a scripting tool that helps users to create, edit and debug AppleScripts. It provides a very rich dictionary browser, so that script developers have quick access to needed information. The dictionary can be navigated through by requesting for several criteria to be taken into account, such as commands, classes, suites, records, events or enumerations. Modifications can be performed in the running application that is targeted by the script. The scripting tool allows for changes made to the targeted utilities to be tracked. With the help of the Explorer, values can be changed inside Script Debugger and the modifications made to the application running outside of the script will also be reflected in Explorer. In order for users to determine how to refer to an element, specified names can be displayed by Explorer and help can be provided in choosing the appropriate name, depending on current needs.
Script Debugger is a tool for creating, editing and debugging AppleScript scripts, where AppleScript is a language whose aim is to exchange data between applications and to control such applications so that repetitive tasks be automated.
v5.0 [Jun 12, 2012]
- 17769 Resolved issues when using the Find panel to search for whitespace within a script.
- 16268, 17765 Added an ‘in window’ parameter to the ‘open’ command in Script Debugger’s scripting interface. When specified, this parameter causes newly opened documents appear in new tab within the specified script window.
- 17761 Improved selection management when inserting clippings that use the [[select:]] directive.
- 17755 Resolved a problem where text replace operations involving Regular Expression groups are not properly substituted.
- 17757 Resolved a crash that occurs when a script document’s ‘properties’ property is read while the document its self does not have a ‘last result’ value (i.e. has never been run).
- 17742 Corrected a problem where it became impossible to close a window following an attempt to save a script with a compilation, and the user elects to save the script as text.
- 17744 If you have any of the Activate SD On Pause, Activate SD On End or Activate SD On Error, SD will post user notifications to the Mac OS X 10.8 User Notification Centre.
- 17697 Resolved a crashing bug that occurs when Script Debugger is asked to quit as part of a system shutdown or user logout.
- 17736 Corrected a problem introduced by the Mac OS X 10.8.2 update that causes SOAP and XML-RPC events to hang when sent from Script Debugger.
- 17730 Corrected a problem where Script Debugger failed to send Crash Reports to Late Night Software on Mountain Lion (10.8) systems.
- 17685 Corrected a bug where the Event Log does not properly filter events targeted at remote machines (using the eppc:// protocol).
- 17556 Resolved a problem where clicking on enumeration links in the Scripting Additions dictionary window dod not lead you to the definition for the enumeration.
- 17714 Resolved a crash that occurs when an external debugging session ends with no result value returned from the script being debugged.
- 17715 Resolved a crash that may occur when using the Forward and Backward buttons in Value Explorers.
- 17710 Entering a backslash key no longer causes paired chevron characters to appear when the Auto-Pair Delimiters Editor preference is checked.
- 17684 Resolved a crash that may occur when closing windows with the Event Log visible.
- 17698 Resolved a crash that may happen when resuming script execution.
- 17695 Resolved a regression that causes Script Debugger 5.0.3 to crash when displaying compilation errors on 32-Bit Intel Macintoshes.
- 17707 Corrected a regression introduced in Script Debugger 5.0.1 which caused the Compile Error sheet to incorrectly display run-time error values.
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