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 ...

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 ...

As is so often the case in the cyclic world of software development, history repeats itself, but (despite Marx’s dictum) it’s better the second time. A couple of years ago, my TidBITS contributions ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...