Mark Alldritt's Journal

Script Debugger Pricing

Posted by Mark Alldritt on Dec 05 2014 | Late Night Software, Script Debugger 5

I see Script Debugger as a tool that makes professional developers money by saving them a lot of time. Those that really need Script Debugger know it and would pay much more because of this simple equation. In fact, if I had more courage I would raise the price even further.

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OSAID Leaks Cause Crashes

Posted by Mark Alldritt on Dec 04 2014 | AppleScript, Cocoa, Late Night Software

As a followup to my Getting Yosemite AppleScript Progress Information post I would like to offer this PSA.

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Script Debugger’s 20th Anniversary

Posted by Mark Alldritt on Dec 04 2014 | Late Night Software, Script Debugger 4, Script Debugger 4.5, Script Debugger 5

Development on Script Debugger 1.0 started in 1993. Version 1.0 was released in late 1994 and was introduced publicly at MacWorld in San Francisco in January 1995.

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Getting Yosemite AppleScript Progress Information

Posted by Mark Alldritt on Nov 27 2014 | AppleScript, Cocoa

Yosemite (Mac OS X 10.10) introduced 4 new properties scripts can set to report progress information: progress total steps (an integer) progress completed steps (an integer) progress description (text) progress additional description (text) See the Yosemite AppleScript Release Notes for full details. What is not explained is how a host application can access this information […]

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