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Re: feature request: it would be nice if AppleScript noticed changes to an apps dictionary after load time.

> At 10:18 AM -0500 3/4/01, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
>
>> Interesting. I'm curious to know why you're trying to do that. What's the
>> benefit to the user/scripter of your app?
>
> The app (Alpha) is heavily scriptable with Tcl. A great deal of
> Alpha's behavior is implemented through Tcl scripts. I've added the
> capacity to the Tcl language to send and receive AppleEvents (Alpha
> already had a limited form of this and Tcl has AppleScript support,
> but I've added much greater access to the AEM) and to define the
> 'aete' dynamically. Different users may load different scripts at
> different times which add or redefine commands in the terminology.
> It's not a conventional plugin architecture where everything loads at
> startup.

That's even more interesting. I might have to look into Alpha.
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Bill Cheeseman, Quechee, Vermont <mailto:email@hidden>

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