Hi There! I hope all are well, and thanks for taking the time to read through this post.
I've got some code that effectively looks for an ExternalObject file on the disk. The file, let's call it mylib.bundle is stored within /Library/Application Support/MyApp
In my ExtendScript code I've got:
ExternalObject.log = true;
ExternalObject.searchFolders = "Plugins;Plug-Ins;Frameworks;.;../../../Plugins;../../../Plug-ins;../Frameworks;../../..;/Library/Application Support/MyApp";
var TEST = new ExternalObject("lib:dlic");
$.writeln(TEST);
When I look at the ESTK Javascript console, I get the following returned since I set the ExternalObject.log method to true:
ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2018/Adobe After Effects CC 2018.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2018/Adobe After Effects CC 2018.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/mylib.framework ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2018/Adobe After Effects CC 2018.app/Contents/MacOS/Plug-Ins/mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2018/Adobe After Effects CC 2018.app/Contents/MacOS/Plug-Ins/mylib.framework ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2018/Adobe After Effects CC 2018.app/Contents/MacOS/Frameworks/mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2018/Adobe After Effects CC 2018.app/Contents/MacOS/Frameworks/mylib.framework ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2018/Adobe After Effects CC 2018.app/Contents/MacOS/./mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2018/Adobe After Effects CC 2018.app/Contents/MacOS/./mylib.framework ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2018/Plugins/mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2018/Plugins/mylib.framework ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2018/Plug-ins/mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2018/Plug-ins/mylib.framework ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2018/Adobe After Effects CC 2018.app/Contents/Frameworks/mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2018/Adobe After Effects CC 2018.app/Contents/Frameworks/mylib.framework ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2018/mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2018/mylib.framework ExtObj: trying /Library/Application Support/MyApp/mylib.bundle [object ExternalObject] Result: undefined |
Everything is fine and the "TEST" variable is assigned the ExternalObject just fine.
The problem is that on some users' machines, the string specified in the .searchFolders method of the ExternalObject does not work. Apparently, on some macOS systems, ExtendScript will search at /Volumes/Library/Application Support/MyApp — effectively appending /Volumes to the actual path where the mylib.bundle file exists. So, the same code listing above on a different machine produces the following result in the ESTK window:
ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/ExtendScript Toolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/ExtendScript Toolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/mylib.framework ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/ExtendScript Toolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/Plug-Ins/mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/ExtendScript Toolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/Plug-Ins/mylib.framework ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/ExtendScript Toolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/Frameworks/mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/ExtendScript Toolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/Frameworks/mylib.framework ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/ExtendScript Toolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/./mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/ExtendScript Toolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/./mylib.framework ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/Plugins/mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/Plugins/mylib.framework ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/Plug-ins/mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/Plug-ins/mylib.framework ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/ExtendScript Toolkit.app/Contents/Frameworks/mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/ExtendScript Toolkit.app/Contents/Frameworks/mylib.framework ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/mylib.framework ExtObj: trying /Volumes/Library/Application Support/MyApp/mylib.bundle ExtObj: trying /Volumes/Library/Application Support/MyApp/mylib.framework |
Notice in the red lines, that /Volumes is somehow appended to the /Library path. However, it really shouldn't be, and the string specifier in the .searchFolders method doesn't have that. Why does ExtendScript insist on trying at /Volumes/Library... when there is no such directory in the disk system nor is it specified in the code.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Arie
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