{"id":263,"date":"2010-06-01T23:42:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T06:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.latenightsw.com\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2011-02-22T08:54:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T15:54:36","slug":"script-debugger-4-5-5b3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Script Debugger 4.5.5b3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latenightsw.com\/blog\/?p=288\">Script Debugger 4.5.5b4 has been released<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>I am preparing another Script Debugger 4.5 maintenance release.  <\/p>\n\n<p>I have been struggling to resolve some stability problems ever since the release of Script Debugger 4.5.  I thought I had these problems resolved a couple of times, but they persist.  With the release of Mac OS X 10.6 they seem to have gotten worse.<\/p>\n\n<p>For the Script Debugger 4.5.5 maintenance release I want to try and resolve these stability issues once and for all.  The difficulty is that I cannot reproduce any of these crashes here on my systems, and the crash reports that I receive don&#8217;t point to any obvious causes. <\/p>\n\n<p>I had a bit of luck and was able to find and resolve some memory management errors in Script Debugger which may have contributed to the problem.  I&#8217;ve also identified a problem in AppleScript that may also be contributing to the stability issues.<\/p>\n\n<p>To help me determine if I&#8217;ve actually solved the stability issues (or at least improved things), please allow Script Debugger to submit all crash reports.  I know that this may slow you down a little, but it will help us all as I work to finally resolve the stability problems.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Requirements<\/h2>\n\n<ul>\n<li>A Script Debugger 4.5 registration number<\/li>\n<li>Intel or PowerPC Macintosh<\/li>\n<li>Mac OS X 10.6, 10.5, 10.4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2>Download<\/h2>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latenightsw.com\/archives\/beta_for_script_debugger\/SD4.5.5b3.dmg\">Script Debugger 4.5.5b3<\/a> (11.4MB)<\/p>\n\n<h2>Installation<\/h2>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Quit Script Debugger if it is running<\/li>\n<li><strong>IMPORTANT<\/strong> Delete all copies of Script Debugger.component and Script Debugger 4.5.component from your ~\/Library\/Components folder<\/li>\n<li>Mount the SD4.5.5 disk image<\/li>\n<li>Copy the Script Debugger 4.5 application from the disk image to your Applications folder (or any other place on your disk)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>I recommend keeping your copy of Script Debugger 4.5.4 around in case you need to revert to that build.  <strong>Note also that this BETA build expires on September 1, 2010<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Script Debugger 4.5.5b3 Changes<\/h2>\n\n<ul>\n<li>14898 Several changes that attempt to resolve Script Debugger&#8217;s stability issues and reduce memory leakage when closing documents (<em>Please ensure you have deleted all old copies of Script Debugger.component and Script Debugger 4.5.component from your ~\/Library\/Components folder<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>14886, 14151 Corrected a series of issues that prevented the Manifest command from properly detecting AppleEvents sent to applications.  Note that these fixes also restore Script Debugger&#8217;s ability to detect which applications will be launched when opening scripts.<\/li>\n<li>14885 FontSyncScripting.app is no longer mistaken as a Scripting Addition.<\/li>\n<li>14884 Script Debugger&#8217;s logic for opening scripts with incorrect filename extensions has been improved.  For instance, compiled scripts carrying a &#8216;.applescript&#8217; extension will open correctly (.applescript normally indicates a plain text file).<\/li>\n<li>14881 A new 32-Bit Only option has been added to the Save As panel allowing you to create 32-Bit applets directly from Script Debugger (this avoids having to visit the Finder&#8217;s Get Info window to select the 32-Bit Only execution option).<\/li>\n<li>14853 Script Debugger can now open the iCal dictionary and any other application dictionaries which make use of xinclude directives.  <\/li>\n<li>14883 Script Debugger now reports error information in the AppleEvent Log window.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new BETA build of Script Debugger 4.5.5 is available for testing.  This maintenance release aims to further improve compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 and resolve stability problems.<\/p><div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/?p=263\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Script Debugger 4.5.5b3<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,15,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AQk-4f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}