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Re: Metamorphosax! (1.0a1 lives!)
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Re: Metamorphosax! (1.0a1 lives!)


  • Subject: Re: Metamorphosax! (1.0a1 lives!)
  • From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:45:55 -0800

At 13:57 -0800 2/9/01, Richard 23 wrote:
>Gadzooks Cal, which one is worse? I can't solve the poor choice of
>the term "property name" in Eighty Lister, as an example, but by
>removing the bugger from the global namespace and isolating (exiling)
>in it to its own script applet it still is available, but on my terms!
>(horrible pun).

Of course you can solve the "property name" term in EightLister. A bit of
work with ResEdit, and you've done it.

I did that with the scriptable version of Excel which came out shortly
before AppleScript's "stealth' release. Apple "stole" the term text from
Excel (in that Excel version, the text of a cell was the as-formatted
content, but Apple released AppleScript with text meaning what it still
means today, and Microsoft's "text" was covered up). To get the
as-formatted text out of a cell, I hacked the Excel 'aete' to use a
different term.

I never circulated the result because
a. copyright
b. my choice of a replacement term was REALLY BAD...and item a caused me
to not care about item b, since it was only for me.

(By the way, I don't see either Apple or Microsoft as at fault...it was
just one of those things that happen when developers write code against
moving targets. It is a credit to the MS folks that that version of Excel
turned out as well--in scripting terms--as it did (this was before the
switch to Visual Basic in Excel)).

--John
--
John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA


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