Applescript error?

doug rogers dougrogers1 at mac.com
Fri Dec 17 08:45:11 EST 2004



Begin forwarded message:

> From: doug rogers <dougrogers1 at mac.com>
> Date: December 16, 2004 8:38:15 PM EST
> To: revolution at runrev.com
> Subject:
>
> New to Revolution. May be a convert from HyperCard :-) Playing with 
> the 30 day demo.
>
> 1) I have a button in my HyperCard stack -with a Hypertalk script- 
> which has as its content a small applescript. So "do me as 
> applescript" in the Hypertalk script executes. Where is the best place 
> to put this snippet of applescript in my Rev Stack? Or, even better 
> than compiling it again everytime, is there a better way to do this?
>
> 2) A question too about overhead. This is a small stack I want to run, 
> basically one card that requests to a network and an applescript to 
> send stuff to iCal. If I buy Dreamcard, I need to run it to access the 
> stack. Upgrading to the Studio edition will allow me to build 
> standalones... and it will just be stuff I'm running on this Mac, 
> perhaps three or so stacks concurrently, OSX dual USB iBook. What is 
> going to be the best use of Memory?
>
> 3) :-) I have had Rev quit a couple of times developing this little 
> stack, as Rev pages in and out of RAM, I think. Maybe it's the calls 
> to the applescript, which seem to launch HyperCard in Classic. So I 
> need to get that applescript up to where I can deal with it.
>
> 4) And the 'request from server' gives me back a -1701 error , which 
> is an AppleEvent thing, I think.
>
> 5) and I forget because I was interrupted by my daughter... hmmmm.... 
> you can't help me with that :-) Oh! MIDI! I have another stack which I 
> would like to work on which depends on an xcmd (XCMD?) which does a 
> call to Quicktime to export out a MIDI file. Anyone working on this 
> kind of stuff?
>
>
>
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