RE:scripting terms (attachability)
RE:scripting terms (attachability)
- Subject: RE:scripting terms (attachability)
- From: George Mack <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 12:55:16 -0500
Phi Sanders <email@hidden> said, on Wed, 7 Feb 2001
18:45:28 -0500:
What great development is it to have a Script menu?
I think it's very little conceptually... although few enough apps have them.
So, (in my mind at least) an app with a script menu is simply "scriptable",
and I would reserve "attachable" for apps whose objects and functions can
be "extended" via OSA Scripts :
FaceSpan, BBedit, Script Debugger, Smile, Style, et al.
Sorry I'm a bit behind in catching up -- had to clear over a month's
worth of digests due to a huge project I was buried in. If this is no
longer of interest then skip my post!
I agree that having a Scripts menu is *convenient* but not a
category's degree of difference as is implied by "attachable".
I had thought that "attachable" was roughly what we have been
identifying as "tinkerable": that the builtin operations could be
fundamentally adjusted by user-generated scripts. So for instance
rather than just setting a premade preference flag for the app, you
could rewrite the sequence of events begun by a "Save" command, for
example.
It doesn't make sense to me that simply being able to direct an app
to do some things, even complicated things, via a script would
qualify it as more than, well, scriptable; isn't that what was
supposed to happen? It's the ability to create NEW default behaviors
that sort of provides a benchmark. The Scripts menu only means that
you don't have to launch Script Editor to invoke the action. (How
having OSAMenu connects to all of this, I can't even guess...)
Well, Apple can use the terms however it decides, and I certainly
can't make anyone else change their usage whether I or Apple agree.
"It's my opinion but ... I could be wrong."
George
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