[TxMt] Re: LaTeX bundle wont stop opening TeXShop

[Allan Odgaard]

On 9 Jan 2015, at 4:58, René Schwaiger wrote:

>> On 08 Jan 2015, at 21:49 , Starx <jstarx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> LaTeX is indeed checked under bundle preferences […]
> I tried it out myself and indeed the LaTeX bundle was checked after I 
> cloned the bundle. So it might indeed be the case that TextMate has 
> overwritten the cloned bundle […]

No, this is just because it has recorded that the LaTeX bundle is 
installed in the local index and/or the bundle is present on disk (a 
newer version). TextMate isn’t able to tell if the one on disk is one 
that TextMate itself put there.

> — especially since the preferences showed that the cloned bundle was 
> updated 14 years [sic] ago.

The “14 years” would (sort of) verify that it’s the custom bundle, 
since TextMate lack the proper “last updated” meta-data.

>> The refresh_viewer.scpt can be opened by the apple script editor and 
>> by textedit as well.  When I do this I can see the code in the 
>> script.  I assume this means it's not compiled.
>
> I assume so too. Just for reference, here is the alert dialog I get:

I’m jumping into the middle of this, so I might have missed some, but 
uncompiled AppleScripts are problematic because the system needs to 
compile them before it’s able to execute them, and for that, it need 
the scripting dictionaries of all programs referenced. If the user lack 
one of the programs, it will fail to compile.

I suggest dropping the external AppleScript and making two branches in 
the Python script instead, which each use: osascript -e 'tell app "…" 
to …'

We had a bunch of similar problems with the “Paste Online” 
functionality, since we used AppleScript to insert the URL in the 
destination app that the user picked, and I believe we did at one point 
also have the problem that applications would launch even though we 
didn’t send them any commands (but they were mentioned in the 
AppleScript we used).