Images, the clipboard, and AppleScript

Last week, my SnapClip macro crapped out with an error message. In the process of fixing it, I learned something about AppleScript that probably won’t ever help me in the future. SnapClip is a Keyboard Maestro macro that puts a graphical user interface on a Python script, process-screenshot. The problem that led to the error was a particular branch of process-screenshot: the branch that puts the screenshot onto the clipboard. I’m not going to rehash the design of SnapClip or process-screenshot here—you can read the old post about them if you want the details. The branch of process-screenshot that failed runs the impbcopy command-line utility written by Alec Jacobson over a decade ago. I’ve had impbcopy running successfully on my Macs for many years, but last week it failed with the error message Bad CPU type in executable I assumed the problem was that impbcopy had been compiled back when I was using an Intel Mac, and it had continued to work because of Rosetta. I thought that because…

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