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== History ==

Script Debugger version 1.0 was released in [[1995]] by [[Mark Alldritt]]. It was a [[third party]] alternative to [[Apple Computer]]'s [[freeware]] application, [[Apple Script Editor]]. Its competitors at that time included [[ScriptWizard]] and [[Main Event Software]]'s popular [[Scripter (software)|Scripter]]. These two products today are defunct, leaving the only other competitors in the field being [[Satimage]]'s [[Smile (software)|Smile]] and [[integrated development environment]]s such as [[FaceSpan]] and [[AppleScript Studio]].

Script Debugger was considered innovative, in that it was both scriptable, (it could be used to create scripts to control itself), ''recordable'', (it could create scripts based on user actions), and ''attachable'', (scripts could be written to respond to [[Event-driven programming|events]]). More importantly, Script Debugger allows you to inspect running applications and view what they are emitting permitting much easier development. The other thing is that Script Debugger is a debugger, with breakpoints, etc.