When Apple was touting Automator as part of the OS X 10.4 Tiger upgrade, some people wondered whether AppleScript would be needed anymore. Now that we’ve seen Automator, AppleScript may be needed more ...

description The Script Debugger user interface \(UI\) displays information about breakpoints set, the call stack and line number of the currently executing script line, details about variables and ...

Late Night Software has updated Script Debugger, their scripting utility, to version 3.0.1, which addresses minor issues that came to light following the release of Script Debugger 3.0. “While there ...

The Script Debugger software for the Mac served a niche – but apparently did so very successfully for decades. The tool for development with AppleScript will be discontinued in mid-2025, as the ...

The error messages that are displayed when a script malfunctions range from effective to practically useless — especially when the scripts themselves are long ...

Under Mac OS X 10.2.x, Script Debugger fails to compile large scripts. When attempting to compile scripts over 3000 lines, the program will return an "out of memory ...

All kinds of things can go wrong with your shell scripts, but they don't have to. Let's look a some debugging tips that can help ensure your scripts run the way you intend. The first step in debugging ...

Last week's post provided some tips and tricks for debugging scripts. This week's provides some even better ones! In last week’s posting, I mentioned the -x and -v options that can be used on the ...

A recent post about debugging constructs surprised me. There were quite a few comments about how you didn’t need a debugger, as long as you had printf. For that matter, we’ve all debugged systems ...