Re: History of Scripting Terms (was Re: Attachability)
Re: History of Scripting Terms (was Re: Attachability)
- Subject: Re: History of Scripting Terms (was Re: Attachability)
- From: Ed Stockly <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 20:31:23 -0800
>
> What great development is it to have a Script menu?
Personally, I don't like the Scripts menu. I would much prefer to attach my
scripts to the appropriate menus.
For example, if my "Close and Save All Documents" script were in the file
menu I wouldn't have to tell my users where to find it.
With OSA Menu the Scripts menu is redundant. I think it would be much more
useful and relavant to allow Scripters to add items to an apps standard
menus.
>
> And I hope no one ever has to say "tinkerable" again...
Tinkearable, Tinkerable, Tinkerable.
(basically means a script could intercept a menu command triggering its own
handler.)
I wish more applications were Tinkerable. As I understand it the reason
developers are discouraged from making apps tinkerable is that it would
cause headaches when users tried to close a window and a script ran instead.
Well, guess what, you can do the same thing using QuicKeys from almost any
application and that hasn't sent developers into the dungeons of support
hell.
ES
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