Re: Sort of [OT]: Raw Codes Database
Re: Sort of [OT]: Raw Codes Database
- Subject: Re: Sort of [OT]: Raw Codes Database
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 08:35:46 -0800
On 12/30/01 7:32 AM, "Greg Back" <email@hidden> wrote:
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In a message written on 12/29/01 6:28 PM, Paul Berkowitz at
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email@hidden wrote:
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> I bet you there's a raw code that will do it.
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Does anyone know of a database of raw codes? I realize that every
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application, scripting addition, etc. has their own codes, in addition to
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the Finder's (I think), so there wouldn't be a list of every single one. But
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is there one that covers just the Finder, or some of the major apps
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(Filemaker, Quark, etc.)?
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Just a random question that came to my mind.
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For any application raw code, you can find it easily with Smile's Copy
Translate function, and slightly more awkwardly for a scripting addition by
removing the addition and rebooting after compilation. With Script Debugger,
it's even easier - just flip a popup in the dictionary of either an app -
including the Finder - or an osax. (And if you come upon one you don't know,
you can use SD's "Manifest" feature, which immediately finds out for you
using www.osaxen.com's database.) But I was asking about the possibility of
a raw code, not just for a native AppleScript command - which you can never
get except by "just knowing" - but which doesn't even exist in this case as
AppleScript. There are some raw codes for Apple Events that "real
programmers", some of whom frequent this list, know about. I was hoping that
this might be the case here, but it doesn't look as if it is.
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Paul Berkowitz