Applescript version problem - newbie

I'm a newbie with little AppleScript experience, though I'm not
completely new to programming in general. I just installed Tiger OS X
from a factory Apple DVD. I did just a basic install. I then installed
several other programs and everything seems to be running fine, but I
ran a simple program that evidently uses AppleScript and it returned
the message that it needs AppleScript version 1.9.0 and that I am
running verison 1.1.0.

This didn't seem right so I searched around for version info and found
the following script (between the dashed lines) in the book:

AppleScript in a Nutshell
By Bruce W. Perry
O'Reilly

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set ASversion to version as string -- initialize ASversion to a string

set ASversion to (characters 1 thru 3 of ASversion as string) as real

(* coerce ASversion to a real number like 1.4 *)

if ASversion is greater than or equal to 1.4 then (* test whether the
version

value is 1.4 *)

display dialog "Good, you're running at least AppleScript 1.4" (*
give the

user some feedback with a dialog box *)

else

display dialog "You're running AppleScript " & ASversion

end if
-----------------

I ran this in the Script Editor and sure enough it returned:

"You're running AppleScript 1.1"

I tried the same thing for my older Jaguar 10.3.8 OS X on one of my
internal drives and it returned "Good, you're running at least
AppleScript 1.4"

Anyone got any ideas why I would only get the value 1.1 for Tiger? I
did the OS installation on a new external 250 GB firewire drive from
OWC computing. I didn't reformat the drive before installing OS X, but
all it had on it was shareware in dmg format that was shipped with it
and I can't see how that would hurt. I inserted the install disk to see
if I could just reinstall AppleScript, but I didn't find the option.
Does AppleScript have problems running on an external firewire drive?

Thanks for any help.

--
Invader Zim

In article <140320070546260541%zim@archon.net>,
Invader Zim <zim.DeleteThis@archon.net> wrote:

> I'm a newbie with little AppleScript experience, though I'm not
> completely new to programming in general. I just installed Tiger OS X
> from a factory Apple DVD. I did just a basic install. I then installed
> several other programs and everything seems to be running fine, but I
> ran a simple program that evidently uses AppleScript and it returned
> the message that it needs AppleScript version 1.9.0 and that I am
> running verison 1.1.0.

Tiger contains AppleScript version 1.10.x, not 1.1.0 which was the
version in Mac OS 8 ! Your program is buggy, and so is the script you
posted. Try changing the first line to :

set ASversion to "1.10.1"

you'll see that it reports it as 1.1.

Patrick
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Patrick Stadelmann <Patrick.Stadelmann.DeleteThis@unine.ch>