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10.4 Only Notes!! See a program's memory usage in its window title
Authored by: Frederico on Jan 05, '07 10:11:27PM

I would kindly ask the authors of all these awesome scripts of late to *PLEASE* make note of system version compatibility! I got hit with a surprising number of support calls today wondering why they could not make this script work, even after installing Growl.

Please, please, please, note at the top of the script under which version of the Mac OS and AppleScript version it was authored and tested; please note whether or not you think it should, might, or will not, to the best of your knowledge, run under older versions; i.e., if you write it under 10.4.8, and do not have older versions, especially major versions (10.3, 10.2, 10.1) to test with, make a note of that fact.

This script utilizes numerous 10.4-only functions, and fails, unfortunately, under older systems where it would probably be more useful; e.g. older hardware with limited RAM which cannot run, or cannot be cost-justified to upgrade to, the latest OS; thus things like RAM usage display would be far more valuable.

It looks like I could rewrite this to perform similar function under at least 10.3; if I do, I will post it here.

Cheers



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compatibility?
Authored by: hayne on Jan 05, '07 11:31:59PM

I had no idea that the script was using some functions that are only available in 10.4 or later. I don't have a 10.3 system to test on.

Which functions are causing trouble in 10.3 ?



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