Re: [unplgd] Trimming " clipping" from clipping file names
Re: [unplgd] Trimming " clipping" from clipping file names
- Subject: Re: [unplgd] Trimming " clipping" from clipping file names
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 20:29:01 -0800
On 11/24/00 8:16 PM, "Glenn Lieding" <email@hidden> wrote:
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If for some reason you didn't want the main part of some script to
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run when the folder is closed, it would be easy enough to add a
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condition for that in the script itself. That would be a lot easier
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than whatever Eric had to go through to write his Folder-Actions-Plus
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extension, and there would be no need for an extension; it could be
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vanilla scripting code.
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I would guess Apple make that implementation choice for some reason
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of convenience for the programmers, perhaps working under some
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deadline, rather than because it's a good idea for the users.
Since Eric HAS gone to the trouble, for which we are all grateful, why
exactly does this still bother you? The reason for the open-folders
condition might well be something different than what you guess. Even if
you're right, would you have preferred that these putative programmers had
met your supposed deadline by simply not including Folder Actions at all?
Since I'm rather certain that a few AppleScript programmers could not hold
up a release of the MacOS at a big MacWorld conference or wherever because
"we need a little more time to make Folder Actions work with closed
folders." (Of course, they didn't do it for several of the next OS releases
either, so maybe there was another reason.)
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Paul Berkowitz