Brand New Newbie with bad luck. Please help!

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Classic Mac OS
#1

Hi,
I love making the simplest little applescripts and I have been doing so for a while here in OSX. Now on 10.3.1. They run fine in my OS on my machine but when I send them to a friend they won’t work. I tried running them on (my machine again) 10.2.6 and only two out of three worked.

What’s this about? These are real simple scripts:

set stringtobedisplayed to “How about Dinner?”
display dialog stringtobedisplayed buttons {“Sure”, “Maybe”, “I’m feeling Lucky”} default button 3

Am I missing something that these won’t work on another machine? And only sometimes in the last OS?

Thanks very very much for helping me get off the ground here!
Nik

#2

On earlier versions, you had to include the application that had to handle the action item.

What if you “wrap” your commands in a:

Tell application “Finder”

end Tell

#3

In fact I did do just that. It seems the big problem was that I was using a cheap-o zip program for compression. With stuffit I’ve had better luck already. I hope that’s the only problem. I’m waiting for some tests to come back.
Thanks