Just installed El Capitan...

wisecracker · December 27, 2015, 6:06am

Just updated from Yosemite to El Capitan on my iMac...

What an improvement!

The front end is really slick now on this tool...

Still using OSX 10.7.5 on my laptop and the Applescript code inside AudioScope.sh is now broken under El Capitan but the rest of AudioScope.sh works on it... <shock>

If I can't solve this then I may abandon the Applescript code inside AudioScope.sh altogether.

Alternatively I might ask for you guys and gals help try and make it work under El Capitan...

Not decided yet...

Happy new year all...

Neo · December 27, 2015, 7:14am

Did you update to XCode 7 already?

wisecracker · December 27, 2015, 8:28am

Hi Neo...

No, I have kept the iMAC as virgin as pssible and am using it as a test bed for the project.

However the full Xcode package is on this MBP but only to OSX 10.7.5...

The AudioScope works mighy fine on El Capitan except it now stalls awaiting user input on using QuickTime Player for capturing a signal.

Using DEMO or SOX it works mighty fine...

This is the applescript code for OSX 10.7.5 and works perfectly for the MBP but I don't know what to do to make it work on the iMAC and OSX 10.11.2...

# #########################################################
# This is purely for a(n) MBP 13 inch, OSX 10.7.x.
QuickTime_Player()
{
# Using Quicktime as the sampling source.
# This takes about 4 seconds per sample total...
osascript << AppleSampler
	tell application "QuickTime Player"
		set sample to (new audio recording)
		set visible of front window to false
		tell sample
			delay 1.5
			start
			delay 1.5
			stop
		end tell
		quit
	end tell
AppleSampler
# Hold until Quicktime fully closes down...
wait
}

Neo · December 27, 2015, 10:54pm

Hmm... I was checking out AppleScript Release Notes which you might find helpful to track down any changes that might have impacted your code.

I noticed that OSA support was stopped in release 10.10 (Yosemite):

I assume your script worked in 10.10 (Yosemite) but is broken in 10.11 (El Capitan)?

10.11 (El Capitan) Changes

This article describes changes to AppleScript and related tools in OS X v10.11.

Folder Actions

Folder Actions now reliably notices all added and removed items in an observed folder.

Script Library Locations

AppleScript now has two additional search mechanisms when searching for script libraries:

Script libraries may now be located in any installed application bundle, in the Contents/Library/Script Libraries directory of the bundle. This allows distributing libraries that are associated with an application, or creating applications that exist solely to distribute libraries.

The environment variable OSA_LIBRARY_PATH may be used to add more locations to search for script libraries. This allows using a library without installing it in one of the usual locations. The variable�s value is a colon-separated list of absolute POSIX paths, such as OSA_LIBRARY_PATH='/opt/local/Script Libraries:/usr/local/Script Libraries'.

For complete details, see Creating a Library in the AppleScript Language Guide.

AppleScriptObjC

AppleScriptObjC now bridges several more types. As usual with AppleScriptObjC, conversion is automatic when passing an AppleScript object to an Objective-C method; converting an Objective-C object to an AppleScript value requires explicit coercion using as.

Most struct types are bridged to records and vice versa. Lists are also bridged to structs if the elements are in the correct order. Previously, only NSRange, NSSize, NSPoint, and NSRect were bridged. struct types with bitfield members are still not supported. [20297172]

File objects (file, alias, and POSIX file) are now bridged to NSURL; NSURL objects with a scheme of file are bridged to alias. [20891802]

date objects are now bridged to NSDate and vice versa. NOTE: Converting between date and NSDate is inherently imprecise: date has a resolution of exactly one second over its entire range, and is relative to the current time zone; NSDate has a variable resolution (for practical purposes, one to ten microseconds), and is a specific point in time. [20891805]

Bug Fixes

AppleScript now reliably recognizes constant and enumeration values from Objective-C frameworks. [18778520]

Coercing NSNumber objects to real no longer truncates double-precision numbers to single-precision. (someNSNumber's doubleValue has always worked correctly.) [18819219]

Coercing NSString objects to string now functions the same as coercing to text or Unicode text, preserving all characters. [18098890]

Other Bug Fixes

delay now functions correctly in applets, waiting for the full specified time. [18963858]

Developer Notes

OSACopyScriptingDefinitionFromURL now works correctly if given a file: URL. [14298245]

In an sdef, access-group elements on a suite are now correctly inherited by all the sub-elements, including class-extension elements. [19966017]

wisecracker · December 28, 2015, 8:21am

Hi Neo...

IIRC it did fail in Yosemite but I had totally forgotten all about it.

I have never had OSX 10.8.x to 10.9.x so would not know if it failed inside those versions.

Thanks for all the info however and I will check it all out over the next few hours...