24U Appearance OSAX
24U Appearance OSAX
- Subject: 24U Appearance OSAX
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:34:05 -0700
I just found this on the macNN web site:
--Michelle
24U Appearance OSAX 1.2
This ReadMe file contains some iportant information about 24U Appearance
OSAX, such as system requirements, installation guide, quick start,
troubleshooting, licence notice, contact information, and copyright
statement.
1. Introduction
24U Appearance OSAX is so called Scripting Addition. It extends
AppleScript by a few very easy-to-use commands to post notifications,
display enhanced Appearance alerts, floating message windows, floating
progress indicators, and even better dialogs such as this one:
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2. System Requirements
Minimum requirements:
- Macintosh with 68020 processor
- Mac OS 7.5 with Appearance installed
- Mac OS 8.6 and AppleScript 1.3.7 for floating message windows and
progress indicators
Recommended configuration:
- Any Power Macintosh, PowerPC equipped PowerBook, iMac, or iBook
- Mac OS 8.6 or newer, AppleScript 1.3.7 or newer, Appearance 1.1 or
newer
3. Installation
To install 24U Appearance OSAX, follow these easy steps:
1. If you did not do this yet, please download and expand the 24U
Appearance OSAX archive.
2. Open the expanded 24U Appearance OSAX folder.
3. Remove any previous version of Appearance OSAX from your 3Scripting
Additions2 folder.
4. Copy the 324U Appearance OSAX2 icon into your 3Scripting Additions2
folder.
You can also drop the 324U Appearance OSAX2 icon on your closed
System Folder icon.
5. If you are going to use floating windows, copy the 3TSM Fix 1.0.32
extension icon into your Extensions folder.
You can also drop the 3TSM Fix 1.0.32 icon on your closed System
Folder icon.
6. If you have installed also the 3TSM Fix 1.0.32 extension, restart
your computer.
4. Quick Start
24U Appearance OSAX is really very easy to use. The best way to
understand what it can do is to go through the included Sample Scripts.
Simply run each of the applets, step by step, and examine their
behaviour. When you are done, you can simply drag any of the applets and
drop it onto the Script Editor's icon. The applet will open in an editing
window so that you will see how it was created. You can even modify the
code and test how your changes affect the applet's behaviour.
5. Troubleshooting
Before you contact our technical support regarding problems or
difficulties using 24U Appearance OSAX, please check if your issue is not
listed below:
My floating message or progress indicator does not respond to mouse
clicks.
The floating windows can have problems getting mouse event when the
script which opened them is just processing an Apple Event. This is a
limitation of current version of 24U Appearance OSAX. There are two
possible workaround for this issue. The first is to perform all your
actions in a short idle event handler. The other one is to create another
applet which you will use only for displaying the windows.
I cannot use the buttons in a progress indicator, because they don't
work.
If you don't care about ability to move or collapse the progress
indicator's window, please check the sample script called 3command
progress2. This script presents a simple workaround that can be enough in
most cases.
I cannot post notification more than once.
You probably don't remove the previously posted notification. A new
notification cannot be posted until the previous one is removed with the
3remove notification2 command.
I can display a 3better2 dialog but I don't know how to get data from
it?
There is a sample script called 3display better dialog2 in the 3Sample
Scripts2 folder. Open the script in your script editor, and you'll see
couple of examples on how to gather data from different kinds of dialogs.
If your problem is not listed above or if the recommended solution does
not work for you, please contact our technical support by e-mail at
<email@hidden>.
6. Shareware Notice
Please note that 24U Appearance OSAX is SHAREWARE. That means it is not
free and you have to pay a licence fee if you want to keep it. You can
install 24U Appearance OSAX and try it for the period of 14 days. After
this period, 24U Appearance OSAX can stop working and require a
registration code. We will provide you with your registration code after
you pay for your licence.
You can freely distribute 24U Appearance OSAX as long as you distribute
the original compacted archive untouched and you don't charge money for
the distribution. If you want to distribute 24U Appearance OSAX on a
physical medium, such as CD-ROM, or if you want to distribute it in other
form than the original compacted archive, you should ask for our
permission.
You can find detailed licence terms in the file named 3Licence Agreement2.
7. Contact Information
You can contact us at one of the following addresses. We prefer
contacting us via e-mail, but you can use any other method if e-mail is
not good enough for you.
E-mail: email@hidden general information about our products
and our company
email@hidden free evaluation codes registration
email@hidden paid licences ordering and registration
email@hidden technical support and bug reports
WWW:
http://www.24u.cz/
Phone/fax: +420-(0)2-9962423
Snail mail: 24U s.r.o.
Skochovicka 88
252 45 Zvole u Prahy
Czech Republic
8. Copyright
The software 24U Appearance OSAX is copyright ) 2000-2001 24U s.r.o. All
rights reserved.
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