Re: Attachability
Re: Attachability
- Subject: Re: Attachability
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:51:19 +0100
At 12:46 +0100 6/02/01, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
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In the early days, as I understand it, this kind of "attachable" application
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was referred to as a "tinkerable" application. Some feel that "attachable"
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is a term that should refer more specifically to applications that implement
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a "Scripts" menu which can be populated with scripts placed in a "Scripts"
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folder in the application's folder.
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If you ascribe to these distinctions, Script Debugger is both attachable and
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tinkerable. There are a few other applications with this double
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sophistication, such as Marco Piovanelli's scriptable styled text editor,
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Style.
Oh. I thought there was a general agreement that "attachable" means that
you can give ("attach", whence the adjective) a script to an object. An
example being Hypercard, where (for those who don't know) buttons, fields
and windows ("cards") have scripts, with an additional (one-level)
hierarchical system for the cards.
I thought that having a "Scripts" menu was to be "Scriptsmenuable".
Emmanuel