>> I have been having problems calling my Cocoa app with Python scripts
>> through the Scripting Bridge. To test further, I wrote the following
>> Cocoa code to use the Scripting Bridge. For a large file (over 7000
>> elements in the SBElementArray recs variable) it runs smoothly until
>> 77% completion and then stops. I thought it had crashed, but one time
>> I waited and after a 2 minute pause, it starts up again and runs
>> smoothly to 100% completion.
>> 
>> So what is wrong with the Scripting Bridge in long scripts? I get
>> these pauses in many scripts
> 
> It sounds like you may have encountered the Snow Leopard Apple Event Bug:
> 
> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10643
> 
> If so, there are two workarounds: (1) Use appscript, which has a built-in
> workaround, or (2) update to 10.6.3 or later. m.


Yes, that is the solution. I was using 10.6.1. After updating my sample code 
and even much longer scripts that gave up well before finishing, they all run 
to completion without pauses.

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John Nairn
http://www.geditcom.com
Genealogy Software for the Mac

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