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

Timothy Bates, email@hidden, wrote:
>Currently, I have to maintain as many copies of these as I have scripts.
>this is a hard task and there is no propagation mechanism, so if I find a
>new efficiency or a bug, I have to manually paste this new change into every
>single script (after first finding them all - forget this if you have
>distributed the files to other users).

I was going to keep quiet, but because you won't let this thing drop...
(grin)

Back in 1998 I wrote a simple AppleScript Addition called "load library".
It works much like Standard Addition's "load script" except it take a
script library name instead of an alias.

The Addition takes the name of the script library to load, and looks for
a script file with the same name in various places, in this order:

<Current Application's Folder>:script libraries:
<System Folder>:Scripts:script libraries: (Mac OS 8.5)
<System Folder>:Scripting Additions:script libraries: (Mac OS 8)
<System Folder>:Extensions:Scripting Additions:script libraries: (System
7)

You can use it like this:

set uppercaseLibrary to load library "uppercase"
tell uppercareLibrary to
set x to uppercase( "Jon" )
end
--> "JON"

But what's really neat is that you can use it directly within a tell
block like so:

tell (load library "uppercase")
set x to uppercase( "Jon" )
end
--> "JON"

This allows you to load a bunch of related handlers at once, and keep
them within a scope block at the same time.

I've never purchased a "real" script editor like Script Debugger or
Scripter, since I'm very content with my load library Addition.

Back when I wrote it, I wanted to make a freeware and commercial version,
but I never figured out a good way to separate the two. Now with X's new
Additions, I could see me giving away the Classic version and selling the
X native version for like $9. Any interest?

.......................................................
Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch jon at redshed dot net
Red Shed Software http://redshed.net (847) 584-7465
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