Re: How to recompile a specific script?

ah.  So something in Windows detected that these scripts had last been used 
with JFW 4.51, but that they were running under JFW 6.0 this time around, 
and caught the discrepancy.  I think I see how it went, now.  Appreciate the 
education on this issue, though it took a lot of people to do it.  Thanks to 
everyone, and certainly to Bruce for helping me understand why it was called 
to my attention at all by my computer, in the first place.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Toews" <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: How to recompile a specific script?


You may have downloaded some scripts that were meant for a different
version of JAWS. When JAWS changes versions, sometimes modifications are
required to teh scripting language. The JSB file must then be recompiled
from the JSS source file with the new version of JAWS so compatibility can
be retained.

Bruce

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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Yardbird wrote:

> I understood everything you say here, and thanks for elaborating so 
> clearly.
> I have only one thing I wonder, still:  You say that once you make any
> changes to the .jss file, the only one that sort of looks like a big 
> macro,
> sort of (to my unsophisticated eyes, so to speak), you have to recompile 
> it,
> which must mean doing something to it that forces it to inform the .jsb 
> file
> of its modifications.
>
> But-- I never *touched* the .jss file in this group, in the first place. 
> So
> how come I get a message as I'm initiating a file download that it must be
> recompiled to work with my "new" version of Jaws?  I'm not objecting, just
> wondering.  The truth is that I just recently found these script files in
> another directory where they shouldn't have been, which must've happened
> when someone copied the hard drive of my old computer to the hard drive of
> this new Dell I got in February.  So now that I happened to find them and
> put them back into the setting/enu folder, the next time I initiate the
> download of some file from the Web, up comes this message, because 
> something
> noticed that I was running a newer version of JFW than I had been running
> previously.
>
> Okay, so I got that figured out.  But still, why does the message say to
> recompile the .jsb file, if it can't be done?  Any idea?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Toews" <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:19 PM
> Subject: Re: How to recompile a specific script?
>
>
> It's like most compilable programming languages: you have the source file,
> that's the file you work on, then the compiled file is the file the
> computer understands.
>
> So you write your scripts in the JSS file. It's your source file, written
> in human-understandable language. Once that's written, you compile the JSB
> file, which is a binary file based on your source code. The JSB file is a
> file that the computer can understand, though it's incomprehensible to
> most humans. If you then want to make changes to your scripts, there's no
> sense trying to edit the JSB file, because it's the binary,
> computer-understandable version of the scripts. So you want to edit your
> JSS file, your source file, which people can understand. However, now that
> you've changed the source file, you must then recompile it into a new JSB
> file so the computer will be able to understand the changes you made.
>
> Bruce
>
>
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