Question about attachable apps
Question about attachable apps
- Subject: Question about attachable apps
- From: Brennan Young <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:25:08 +0200
- Organization: Magic Lantern
If an app is attachable, my understanding is that I don't need to target
it explicitly, although in order to have the script compile correctly in
script editor, and have some measure of debugging, I do
What I'm wondering about is whether there is any overhead involved in
tell application "SomeAttachableApp"
-- blah blah blah
end tell
... because if this script runs inside that app, surely I am telling the
app to tell itself something. Is there any penalty here?
In other words, if I run an attached script from the application's own
script menu (or from OSA menu) it seems to me that I am actually doing this:
tell application "SomeAttachableApp"
tell application "SomeAttachableApp"
-- blah blah blah
end tell
end tell
...and if so, does this incur any performance or memory issues?
A related question: If, afer I check the script is working ok in script
editor, I then replace the 'tell' with 'using terms from' before
distributing it, is there any advantage?
Thanks in advance.
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Brennan