PrefDictRenderURLStrings

Script Debugger
#1

I’m going to publish a blog post documenting many of Script Debugger’s expert preferences settings in the future. In the meantime, here’s a setting you may find useful: PrefDictRenderURLStrings.

You turn this setting on by entering this command into Terminal (quit Script Debugger first):

defaults write com.latenightsw.ScriptDebugger6 PrefDictRenderURLStrings -bool YES

This setting controls how strings containing URLs are rendered in Script Debugger’s Best View. Normally, you’ll see the string, but when the PrefDictRenderURLStrings setting is ON/TRUE, Best View renders the string as a Web View displaying the target URL.

To see both the URL as a string and a web page, Shift-Click on the Best and Source button segments in the Result view.

Note that if you are viewing an NSURL AppleScriptObjC object, the Best View is a Web View displaying the target URL by default. You can turn this OFF by altering the PrefDictRenderNSURLs expert preference setting.

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#2

Never! :sunglasses:

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use framework "Foundation"

current application's NSUserDefaults's standardUserDefaults()'s setObject:true forKey:"PrefDictRenderURLStrings"
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#3

Shane’s way is a lot less messy looking.
Besides I like Shane’s “Never! :sunglasses:” It is words to live by :sunglasses:

#4

NOTE: This and other “Expert” Script Debugger preferences are now documented here.