Extendscript Toolkit: Error Message "(#1116) Can't start debug session."

Hi Max,

That's what I thought at first, too. @bbb tried really hard to make that happen and it didn't pan out.

I think the solution that was in the works before this problem was to make this ExtendScript Visual Studio Code plugin. It doesn't have all of the functionality of the original ESTK, but in the near future large parts of it will be open source. I've seen many developers in the community try the new plugin, and keep using the old ToolKit. (Don't try to run both at the same time, by the way.)

Eventually macOS will drop support for 32 bit applications, and ExtendScript ToolKit will stop working.

Sorry about the system clock suggestions, we knew that was risky, but other users said it worked for them.

We have a more official fix, please give it a try:

So a possible workaround is to suggest the following to users

1.       Open the file(Mac): “/Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/ExtendScript Toolkit.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Required/cdic/11BTBackend.jsx”

2.       Search for the value: 604800000 (line reads bt.timeout = 604800000)

3.       Replace that value with 604800 and save

4.       Quit ExtendScript Toolkit and relaunch.

A handful of third-party developers have verified this works.

Here's the cause of the error:

It looks like an issue because of signed 32-bit integer overflow that happens on this date “19 Nov 2018”.

In the implementation in the ESTK jsx file “/Applications/Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC/ExtendScript Toolkit.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Required/cdic/11BTBackend.jsx”, there is a timeout specified in milliseconds

“bt.timeout = 604800000;   // a week in milliseconds”.

The current time is(time(NULL)) since EPOCH: 1542783918 seconds.

Adding:  1542783918 + 604800000 = 2147583918(which crosses the range of 32 bit integer(2,147,483,647).)

Looks like it was a mistake putting 3 zeroes at the end because in BridgeTalk code... it expects timeout in seconds and not milliseconds. So bt.timeout should be 604800 and that will fix the overflow issue.