Re: Summarize anything? [Followup]
Re: Summarize anything? [Followup]
- Subject: Re: Summarize anything? [Followup]
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:28:29 -0800
On Wednesday, December 12, 2001, at 01:13 PM, Bob.Kalbaugh wrote:
Out of curiosity, I activated the 'Find by Content' extension OMM and
lo and
behold... It Worked! Wondering if it was just a fluke, I deactivated
'Find
by Content', rebooted, and got the same error as before. And once more
activated...Works!
So it would appear to me that [summarize anything] is dependent on this
extension being activated. Again, this was on 8.5.1/AS v1.3.4 Can anyone
verify this or explain why it would be so?
Find by content, summarize, and a few other things I'm forgetting at the
moment are really all the same technology, and most of the code for them
lives in the same extension, i.e. Find by Content. Therefore, removing
Find by Content disables the "summarize" command.
In general, it's not a good idea to remove standard system pieces just
because you think based on the name that you're not going to need them.
The name may be misleading, packaging may not be straightforward, and
there may be hidden dependencies you're not aware of. (There's a famous
tech call from someone who threw away the Finder because they knew where
everything was on their system and didn't need its help to find
anything.)
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering