Paul, this is my first time to comment and I hope I am not confusing things
but I know why Denes could not get your script to work I had the same
initial problem. He is copying the >>> at the beginning of each line of your
script. When I deleted these on each line and just had the script it
compiled immediately as follows
tell application "Finder"
activate
display dialog "All OK"
end tell.
Hope this helps
Regards,
Fred Annesley.
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> From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:44:16 -0700
> To: Entourage Mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Entourage and the Address Book
>
> On 9/15/03 5:58 PM, "D�nes Bogs�nyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On 2003-09-15 20:11, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/15/03 2:31 AM, "D�nes Bogs�nyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> The fact that 'activate'
>>>>> doesn't work is the clearest possible proof of that, since even
>>>>> unscriptable
>>>>> applications will respond to 'activate' - it's the most basic command in
>>>>> all
>>>>> existence.
>>>> So what!!!!
>>>
>>> It indicates that no AppleScripts can run on your computer, although they
>>> can run on everyone else's computer. It's got nothing to do with any
>>> particular AppleScript.
>>>
>>> If you copy and paste
>>>
>>> tell application "Finder"
>>> activate
>>> display dialog "All OK"
>>> end tell
>>>
>>> into Script Editor, and click Run button, the Finder should come to the
>>> front, and you should see a dialog with "All OK".
>> I tried this and got the following error: ?Expected end of lie etc. but
>> found identifier.?
>>>
>>> If you copy and paste
>>>
>>> tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
>>> activate
>>> display dialog "All OK"
>>> end tell
>>>
>>> into Script Editor, and click Run button, Entourage the Finder should come
>>> to the front, and you should see a dialog with "All OK".
>> I tried this and got the same error: ?Expected end of lie etc. but found
>> identifier.?
>>>
>>> If those two tests work OK, Save each script as an Application (flip the
>>> popup in the Save panel to "Application", and save it to your desktop. Then
>>> double click each one. Again, for the first one the Finder should be in the
>>> front displaying its message, and in the second, Entourage comes to the
>>> front and displays its message.
>>>
>>> It works for everyone else. Does it work for you?
>> What does this mean? Should I proceed with an install or can I replace the
>> applescript?
>
> It shows that enough of the scripting system is working so that it can
> actually display those error messages to you, but something is definitely
> seriously broken. AppleScript does not understand its own language. That was
> very clear also with the problems you reported on the eMessage Archiver
> mailing list. They were the same type of problems. You can't take even the
> first step in AppleScript because it's not understanding its own terms. You
> really need to reinstall OS 10.2 as an "Erase" or Archive" install, as Barry
> described. The options to do so are very near the beginning of the
> installer, but you _have_ to click the "Options" button when it appears or
> you won't get those options. If I recall correctly, the installer assumes
> you want to do an Upgrade installation ("You have chosen to do an Upgrade
> Installation") and that's when you have to click Options and choose Archive
> or Erase.
>
> If you choose to do Archive, don't rush to bring back all your preferences
> in one swoop from the "Previous System", since your problems are somewhere
> in there. Do back up before you reinstall, including your Microsoft User
> Data folder, of course. Basically your entire Documents folder in your OS X
> user should be backed up to another drive, and bring that back after you
> reinstall. You may have other folders to back up too. But do NOT back up
> anything in the /System folder and nothing in the root Library folder
> either. The Library folder in your own Users/[username] folder ("Home")
> contains some things you may want again, especially Preferences folder. But
> don't be in a hurry to bring stuff back from a corrupt installation: you're
> better off reinstalling everything (including your applications) anew.
>
> You'll also have to update back to 10.2.6, etc. It's a fairly lengthy trip,
> but well worth it.
>
>
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