[Macpartners] macOS Sierra: breaks 'close' in applescript

[Duncan S Kincaid]

for those interested in AppleScript and its current unhappy state in macOS sierra, here’s some good news!
the bug reported below appears to be fixed in macOS 10.12.4 (BETA).

the patch did NOT make its way into recently released macOS 10.12.3.

dk


> On Dec 29, 2016, at 12:35 PM, Duncan S Kincaid <dsk at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> lars (cc macpartners)
> 
> I hope this finds you well.
> 
> I seldom have anything to do with AppleScript as its gotten plenty of non-love from Apple over the years.
> That said, on the rare occasion it is needed.
> 
> ISSUE:
> The ‘close’ action appears to be broken in macOS 10.12 (it is fine under OS X 10.11).
> The example below is true for all tested applications, not just TextEdit.
> 
> 1. open TextEdit and create new file without saving
> 2. the following applescript command will fail
> 
> tell application "TextEdit"
> 	close document 1 saving yes saving in POSIX file "/Users/dsk/Desktop/WTF.txt"
> end tell
> 
> ERROR:
> "TextEdit got an error: AppleEvent handler failed." number -10000
> 
> The above identical script runs fine under OS X 10.11.
> 
> Is this a known bug? if not, i’ll report it.
> (i can’t seem to search bug submittals with my apple developer ID)
> 
> thanks
> dk
> 
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> duncan kincaid
> cron | mit school of architecture and planning
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