Re: AppleScript-Cocoa Impedance Mismatch

Subject: Re: AppleScript-Cocoa Impedance Mismatch

From: Major Domo <email@hidden>

Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 14:41:56 -0700

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Also, when you have a fixed number of types, I would use an enumeration for the type rather than a string. It's clearer, prevents abuse and mistyping, and mentions the possible values automatically in the scripting dict.

So it turns out this is not actually possible. When you have both an enumerator named "book" and a class named "book," AppleScript interprets the word "book" as a class name and refuses to convert it into a constant. Thus, it seems, we can either have subclasses or have enumerated types, but not both. Hence, the use of strings.

Given time constraints, I think I'm going to have to abandon the subclasses and just have a single "medium" type, as unfortunate as that will be...

Cheers,

Mike Lee, Major-domo

Delicious Monster Software, LLC

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