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Re: Can a script receive AppleEvents?
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Re: Can a script receive AppleEvents?


  • Subject: Re: Can a script receive AppleEvents?
  • From: Christian Smith <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:33:53 -0500

On Tuesday, November 15, 2000 at 09:17 AM, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:

>> On 15/11/00 8:49 AM +1000, Peter Fine, email@hidden, wrote:
>
> > The second most-scriptable app is BBEdit 6
>
> Ahem. I use BBEdit 6, and it's scripting is much improved. It's
> attachability is *very* impressive, and its recordability is well
> implemented. But it's still far from a full object-model
> implementation.

BBEdit 6 supports the AEOM and whose-clauses are included in that
support. If you have specific issues with the object model support in
BBEdit 6.0 we would be more than glad to hear about them at
<email@hidden>.

> Of course it's difficult to weigh one feature against another, but
> IMO, to suggest that an application that does not support whose
> clauses for _any_ of its classes is the second-most-scriptable app in
> existence is, well, just not true.

I'm not going to argue whether or not BBEdit 6 is the "second
most-scriptable app". I'm not sure that this is something which is even
easily quantifiable. That said, BBEdit 6.0 does support whose-clauses in
its scripting interface.

Some basic examples:

every word of text window 1 whose contents is "apple"
every window whose name ends with ".html"

What specificly have you tried to do with whose-clauses in BBEdit 6.0
which has not worked?

--
Christian Smith | email@hidden | http://web.barebones.com

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