Re: I've changed the name of a file...
Re: I've changed the name of a file...
- Subject: Re: I've changed the name of a file...
- From: cheshirekat <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 19:17:37 -0700
On 11-03-2000 3:48 PM, Richard 23 may have typed or relayed in full or in
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>You could try using one of the scriptable script editors that you say you
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>own but don't use much.
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Hey, whaddya want? The receipts? 8)
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Yes I do have them all, even the no longer available Script Wizard.
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But being a bit of a compatibility freak I usually stick with Script
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Editor which keeps me honest (well writing scripts that can run and
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compile in Script Editor for as many potential users as possible anyway).
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>In Smile, all I have to do is press the F5 key, which I've set to type
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> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to
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Now that's a good idea. I've noticed that (in MacOS 9) you can assign
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to the function keys. (How could I not? Every time I accidentally hit
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one, it would open the Keyboard control panel.) But it looks like you
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assign applications or documents, not keystrokes or strings but I may
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be able to hack something together to use them in Script Editor like
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you do in Smile.
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R23
If you really want to use the Script Editor, a utility like OneClick or
probably QuicKeys can help shorten the amount of typing that you do when
creating AppleScripts. I have tried many times to use the bare bones
Script Editor and found it just too inadequate and much like using a
crayon to correspond. I've been using Scripter very happily and for so
long that using anything else (or being without it) is too uncomfortable
and much like ... well, using Windoze. I also haven't found any proof
that what I create in Scripter would behave any differently in Script
Editor.
As much typing as I do, it would almost seem like one or two more words
just wouldn't seem like a big deal, but somehow it becomes quite a
mountain so I'm constantly looking for ways to make one multi-step
process into one - even while in the middle of creating an AppleScript
whose purpose is to do just that.
kat
(who sometimes isn't sure if the need for more shortcuts means that I'm
lazy or terribly inefficient, or maybe both)
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