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: Chris Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 12:06:59 -0800
- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Allen Watson wrote:
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On or near 11/17/00 10:58 PM, Richard 23 at email@hidden observed:
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> This version of AppleScript automatically searches
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> the System Folder and its enclosed folders for such applications by name,
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> increasing the chances that the application you name will be found without
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> the dialog box.
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So then, we could create a new folder inside System folder, let's call it
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"Application Aliases", and just put aliases to all our applications there. I
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like that better than cluttering up the Scripting Additions folder with
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aliases.
Unfortunately, that won't work. AppleScript 1.4 doesn't search *all* folders
in the System Folder, just the Control Panels, Extensions, and Scripting
Additions folders, plus the System Folder itself. I'm afraid the release notes
lie slightly...
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering