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: cheshirekat <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 10:15:30 -0700
On 11-17-2000 10:15 PM, Allen Watson may have typed or relayed in full or
in part ...
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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.
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Let me see if I understood correctly: You put an alias for each of your
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applications into the Scripting Additions folder. I think you also implied
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that you sometimes put several aliases to the same application, under
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multiple names (e.g., the Eudoras). Couple questions:
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1. Did you find an easy way to automate the process of finding all your
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applications and making aliases of them? (A script, I presume?)
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2. What did you do about scripts from books and such that address
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applications you do not have? For instance, I do not have Scriptable Text
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Editor any longer. Could I substitute an alias by that name but pointing to
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BBEdit or Tex-Edit?
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3. How does this evade the "Where is..." dialogs? Does Smile or Script
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Editor always look in the Scripting Additions folder for applications? Why
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don't we do this kind of thing all the time, then, instead of just when
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archiving? Why not write a script that would create aliases for all of a
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user's applications and put them there so that scripts would <never> have to
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ask where applications are?
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Peace,
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Allen Watson
It's very easy to create a bunch of aliases at one time with OtherMenu.
First, you set the Scripting Additions Folder as a default folder using
the OtherMenu external "QuickAlias". Then you start using the "Make Alias
As" external, to point to your applications you want an alias to in the
default (Scripting Additions) folder you just set. Navigating to those
applications (from dialog boxes) is very quick since I already have quick
access aliases created from several years of using OtherMenu since you
can select an alias in the OtherMenu menu while the dialog is displayed.
Since I frequently categorize collections of aliases, I also make heavy
use of the "Recent Applications" folder. Every few days or so, I just
open up the recent applications and scoop up all the aliases that I want
to place where I need them-usually in a OtherMenu folder I've created or
in places like the Apple Menu or Scripting Additions folder. In the
OtherMenu preferences, you can set how many aliases you want kept in your
recent applications/documents/folders folders. I set mine to 30, so that
I can always get to an application I've used in the past week quickly.
I think it's time consuming to have to open up folders from the Finder to
create aliases. That's because OtherMenu has spoiled me by making this
process a bit easier. It's rare that I use the Apple menu because I have
categories of aliases like frequent apps, frequent internet apps,
frequent graphic-multimedia apps, frequent games, frequent documents,
frequent sounds, etc., within my OtherMenu menu.
kat