Works in Applescript, but not in KM

Questions & Suggestions
1

I’ve got a script that works in Applescript’s edit perfectly, but gives the following error when I try to run it from inside KM

/var/folders/_d/tr03v0911ln7chvy_hr3zcym0000gn/T/Keyboard-Maestro-Script-650B06D6-65E3-4AAE-9D27-AB8A2A1E7C9F:1000:1003: execution error: Can’t get end. (-1728)

The script is rather convoluted so I don’t want to post it here, but it mainly just gets a bit.ly link for a site depending on whether the user is using Chrome or Safari. Is there any rough idea of what would make the script fail in KM but work fine in AS?

2

Hey Peter,

It’s impossible to say.

Wrap your script in a proper error handler and see if you get any more information.

If not then you’ll have to troubleshoot the script the hard way.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
try
   
   # YOUR SCRIPT HERE
   
on error e number n
   set e to e & return & return & "Num: " & n
   if n ≠ -128 then
      try
         tell application (path to frontmost application as text) to set ddButton to button returned of ¬
            (display dialog e with title "ERROR!" buttons {"Copy Error Message", "Cancel", "OK"} ¬
               default button "OK" giving up after 30)
         if ddButton = "Copy Error Message" then set the clipboard to e
      end try
   end if
end try
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

-Chris

3

Thanks for the reply, just got it to work. Actually adding the “try” made it work instantly so I think I was missing some closing or opening part.

4

Keyboard Maestro runs scripts in osascript, so generally you can get the same result by simply opening the Terminal, typing “osascript[return]” and then pasting in your script, press return and Control-D.

Even then the context is slightly different, since the Terminal context is different to the Keyboard Maestro context.