How Do I Handle Multiple Versions of SD?

Script Debugger
#1

I have a script to open some text in a Script Debugger document, but I don’t know how to allow for different versions of SD.

The user might have just one version of SD, or 3 versions.
I want to use the latest version the user has installed.
How would I do that?

Here’s my current script:

on openScriptInSD(pScriptStr)
  tell application "Script Debugger 7"
    activate
    
    set oDoc to make new document with properties {source text:pScriptStr, debugger enabled:true}
    tell oDoc to compile
  end tell
end openScriptInSD

If I use tell application "Script Debugger", then it opens SD6.

#2

You can address specific versions by bundle ID:

tell application id "com.latenightsw.ScriptDebugger7"
	id --> "com.latenightsw.ScriptDebugger7"
end tell

com.latenightsw.ScriptDebugger7 : Script Debugger 7
com.latenightsw.ScriptDebugger6 : Script Debugger 6
com.latenightsw.ScriptDebugger5 : Script Debugger 5

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#3

Using what @alldritt has posted, you could do something like this:

repeat with i from 8 to 5 by -1
	try
		set theApp to application id ("com.latenightsw.ScriptDebugger" & i)
		exit repeat
	end try
end repeat
using terms from application "Script Debugger"
	tell theApp
		-- do your thing
	end tell
end using terms from
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#4

Very cool, Shane! :+1:

This is perfect for what I need.

#5

Well, darn. As soon as I compiled your script using SD7, it changed that statement to:
using terms from application "Script Debugger 7"

It added the “7”.

Same result using Script Editor.

Any ideas?

#6

That doesn’t matter. That statement is just specifying the application to be used at compile time — it’s ignored at run time. You just need to make sure you don’t use any 7-only code.

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