Newbie: Force Script Debugger to refresh changed bundled script

[tqwhite (TQ White II)]

I’m very new to this. Apologies for being dumb.

I have an early script. It’s broken into three subordinate modules. When I change one of the subs, the result is the result from before the change unless I change the top level script to force recompile.

So far, I literally have a comment that I edit to force recompile. It’s extremely annoying and it seems there should be a way to cause Script Debugger to always recompile.

I note that osascript from the command line does not have this problem. It pucks up the changes always.

Thanks for your help.

[alldritt (Mark Alldritt)]

Welcome!

@tqwhite

So far, I literally have a comment that I edit to force recompile. It’s extremely annoying and it seems there should be a way to cause Script Debugger to always recompile.

If you hold down the Option key, Script Debugger’s Compile command activates and changes to Recompile.

@tqwhite

I note that osascript from the command line does not have this problem. It pucks up the changes always.

The difference is that each time you invoke osascript it runs in a new process and thus a new instance of AppleScript. Nothing is cached run-to-run. By contrast, AppleScript caches quite a bit of information run-to-run behind Script Debugger’s back. The problem you are experiencing is an unfortunate consequence of AppleScript trying to be helpful and more performant.

[tqwhite (TQ White II)]

Thank you very much. I knew there had to be a solution.

Dear Script Debugger folk, Please give me a preference to make it so that it always recompiles.