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Re: "path to me" vs ":"
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Re: "path to me" vs ":"


  • Subject: Re: "path to me" vs ":"
  • From: JJ <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 13:39:49 +0100

> It's entirely possible that I am clueless, but why would you want to
> define an app as your parent? What advantages does it bestow?
>
> ~Phi

I really used it only in a script, "MSIE Library", a collection of up to 30
handlers to enhace applescript's power in Internet Explorer.
30 handlers = 30 "tell app IE" + 30 "end tell"
So, using the property parent with IE is 60 lines cheaper, and you can
compile any IE command without enclosing it into a "tell" block.

Also (pure speculation), if applescript's constant pi is 3.14159265359,
perhaps you'd like work with up to 20 pi decimals in an auxiliary app, or
you won't work with a single empty item list as delimiter.

Also, you may wish execute varios subroutines using terms from certain apps,
and let them running within a script object whose parent is the related app.

Thought, basically hardcode economy.

JJ


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