On Dec 14, 2012, at 11:12 AM, Bill Steele <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 8 keys. You'd think it could manage that.
> 
> On Dec 13, 2 012, at 1:42 PM, Emmanuel LEVY <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> Do your records include many many keys?
>> 
>> We were hit by a limit on the number of "keys" that AppleScript can store, those "keys" including the records' keys, all the variables' names and all the handlers' names.
>> 
>> This is easily tested:
>> 
>> --------
>> display dialog "ready to bug?"
>> repeat with i from 1 to 10000
>> 	try
>> 		run script "set r to {|" & i & "|:1}"
>> 	on error -- Internal Table Overflow: your app is no longer usable, quit ASAP 
>> 		display dialog i
>> 		exit repeat
>> 	end try
>> end repeat
>> --------
>> 
>> Emmanuel
>> 
>> On Dec 13, 2012, at 7:28 PM, Bill Steele wrote:
>> 
>>> I have a script that reads a series of Filemaker records, doing some processing and writing out a file based on each one. As it goes along it accumulates some information (title, abstract, filename, etc.) about each item in an Applescript record; at the end it read throughout the recoed and writes out a summary -- essentially a table of contents. 
>>> 
>>> All fine until we upgraded to Mountain Lion. Now it reads two or three records and then hangs in the middle of the next one. At first I though one of the Filemaker records was corrupted, but switching them around doesn't change the results. It seems as if Applescript is saying "Hey, I can only do so much of this and then I have to quit." The information read in from the Filemaker record presumably is overwritten each time, as it's assigned to the same Applescript variable. The best idea I can come up within that Applescript can only store so much information ion its own record. Or that the stuff being read in *doesn't* feet flushed. 
>>> 
>>> Ran the same script on a machine running Tiger. No problems. 
>>> 
>>> Any ideas?


I got around some hangs by re-writing my scripts to work outside applescript in the shell 

here is a sample from my filemaker button applescript call the terminal and execute the heavy lifting script in bash or perl.

display dialog "  Run SomeScript in /usr/local/bin " buttons {"YES", "NO", "BAILOUT"} default button 3
--If user is great
if result = {button returned:"YES"} then
	
	tell application "Terminal"
		do script "/usr/local/bin/myscript.sh" -- opens a new window
	
		display dialog " keep window open ? " buttons {"YES", "NO", "BAILOUT"} default button 3
		if result = {button returned:"YES"} then
			--close window 1
		else if result = {button returned:"NO"} then
			close window 1
			--If user is a exit
		else
			display dialog "Excuse me pal!"
		end if
		
	end tell
	--If user is no
else if result = {button returned:"NO"} then
	display dialog "whats yer deal"
	
	
	--If user is a exit
else
	display dialog "Excuse me pal!"
end if