Re: Newbie Scripter
Re: Newbie Scripter
- Subject: Re: Newbie Scripter
- From: Hylton Boothroyd <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 09:46:02 +0100
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:43:44 -0600 Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
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You need: "AppleScript Guide" which is a help file downloadable from somewhere
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on www.apple.com. But it doesn't show up when you choose help while in the
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AppleScript editor. You hove to tweak to the finder and ask for help from the
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menu there.
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There are also a batch of modules which can be added to it. Names like:
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"Guidebook Module LNK0100" which come about as you search www.apple.com. You
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download them and run the installer that comes with the download. Then you
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hunt for the results in help under the Script Editor. But it's not there. You
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have to open help from the finder to see what you have installed.
I'm not sure whether you are talking mainly about the problems of finding
the components of the Apple Script Guidebook in order to download and
install them, or whether you are talking mainly about your experience once
you think you have installed them.
Whichever it is, it looks as though it is not properly installed on your
machine.
You may also have a problem with the software versions you are working with.
The web page I started from said that Mac OS 8.6 or later was required. I
have Mac OS 9.0.4, Script Editor 1.4.3, and Smile 1.7.2.
As a check for you, it might be useful for me to describe what it's like to
call on the AppleScript Guidebook once it's correctly installed.
In
Macintosh HD:System Folder:Help
I have Help Viewer and nine folders, including
AppleScript Guidebook (with subfolders for a dozen or so of the
guidebook modules you mention)
AppleScript Help
Smile help
When in the Finder, clicking
Help > Help Center
produces a menu based on the nine folders, including
AppleWorks Help
AppleScript Guidebook
AppleScript Help
Smile help...
A search at the Help Center level covers all nine areas in one quick search,
or I can browse around each one as I wish.
When in the Script Editor, I can click
Help > Help Center
exactly as in Finder (which is where my experience differs from yours). But
the Help menu additionally gives me the option of going directly to
AppleScript Help
When in Smile, clicking
Help > Smile help...
gives me Smile's top level help (the dots are part of the folder name). The
route to the Help Center is
Help > Smile help... > Home
where "Home" is the little blue house.
As it happens, the Help menus in Script Editor and Smile also give me the
option of going directly to
Jon's Commands Reference
though that's a different story since the contents aren't integrated into
Apple Help.
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Hylton