Re: Smile - new window with properties [and a tip]
Re: Smile - new window with properties [and a tip]
- Subject: Re: Smile - new window with properties [and a tip]
- From: Allen Watson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 21:15:20 -0800
On or near 11/12/00 5:39 PM, James Yost at email@hidden observed:
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Secondly, for anyone thinking of archiving a large number of scripts
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to text (or FileMaker or whatever). The "Where is Application??"
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dialog can kill you. Among the scripts I archived were scripts from
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books, downloaded scripts, scripts written for applications named
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with version numbers etc. Many of them threw up the Dreaded where is
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dialog.
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My solution was to put an alias for every version of my apps I could
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think of into the Scripting Additions folder (I'm on 9.04). For
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example, three aliases of Eudora were named Eudora, Eudora Pro and
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Eudora Light and so on for all my apps. The next time I tried, about
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95% of the Dreaded dialogs disappeared!! Yay (exuberant delight)
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Apple.
Let me see if I understood correctly: You put an alias for each of your
applications into the Scripting Additions folder. I think you also implied
that you sometimes put several aliases to the same application, under
multiple names (e.g., the Eudoras). Couple questions:
1. Did you find an easy way to automate the process of finding all your
applications and making aliases of them? (A script, I presume?)
2. What did you do about scripts from books and such that address
applications you do not have? For instance, I do not have Scriptable Text
Editor any longer. Could I substitute an alias by that name but pointing to
BBEdit or Tex-Edit?
3. How does this evade the "Where is..." dialogs? Does Smile or Script
Editor always look in the Scripting Additions folder for applications? Why
don't we do this kind of thing all the time, then, instead of just when
archiving? Why not write a script that would create aliases for all of a
user's applications and put them there so that scripts would <never> have to
ask where applications are?
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Peace,
Allen Watson <email@hidden> XNS name: =Allen Watson
A Mac family since 1984
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