Re: FMP question -- for Shane Stanley?
Re: FMP question -- for Shane Stanley?
- Subject: Re: FMP question -- for Shane Stanley?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:44:31 -0800
On 10/31/00 2:06 AM, "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden> wrote:
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My guess is that Entourage has the same creator type as OE. The script looks
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first to see if OE is running, sees an app of the right type but wrong name,
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and asks the user to sort out the confusion.
No, it must be something else. OE's creator type is "MSNM" and Entourage's
is "OPIM".
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> It makes you wonder what all the fuss was ever about.
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I guess the fuss is about someone choosing the wrong app the first time; it
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effectively makes a script unusable.
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I always advise people to have the relevant app running before running a
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script for the first time (this is particularly so for apps like
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QuarkXPress, where a lot of stuff is version dependant); for those who read
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the instructions, it works fine. For the rest -- to be brutal, they're
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inconvenienced more than me.
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Of course, if your job is to support lots of users, the equation tilts the
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other way.
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And I believe OS 9 improves things, although I haven't really tested it.
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> So it would be simpler just to use 'tell application "FileMaker Pro"' and
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> let the window come up on first script run.
That's very good advice.
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Paul Berkowitz