Re: Calling an application
Re: Calling an application
- Subject: Re: Calling an application
- From: Andrew Wylie <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 04:25:46 +1300
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:25:56 -0600 JollyRoger wrote
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You have to admit this is a strange place to store applications. Why are
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you storing apps on desktops other than the startup disk? And why would you
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not move the app to a better location to solve this problem?
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a)yes b)I recall mentioning storing c)I'm not user x on machine x running
script x, why do children flush their toys down the toilet? Is this a bug
with toilets, toys or both?
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Now move that script to another machine, and watch it break (display the
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"Where is app?" dialog). :)
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A .1% chance with AS1.3+ according to a Andy Bachorski in the aforementioned
Sourcebook piece.
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Then I hate to be the bearer of bad news; but you are going to have to heed
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our advice, and stop being so hard headed. ;) Some of us (including me)
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have been distributing scripts world-wide for years, and know what works,
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and what doesn't.
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What advice might that be? I have a explanation from Marc and an ambiguous
hint from Emmanuel, the former is interesting and the latter perplexing,
neither seem heed able. I'm sure you know plenty from your experience but
you've demonstrated you don't know everything "what doesn't".
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If you are looking for an apology for it being nasty, don't look here - I
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didn't make it that way - but I know it's the only thing that really works
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for distributed scripts. :)
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I was looking for a yeah.
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I won't bother trying to teach you why double-tell partially works, because
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it only partially works, and you do seem to want something that works in all
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situations.
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I sought comment on the pros and cons of 2 methods.
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If you want a complete solution that will never present the "Where is app?"
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dialog, you're going to have to use the raw event code method. If you are
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interested in learning how to do that, just say so, and someone will show
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you.
Is there more than one raw event method?
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> I've since read Bill's informative Sourcebook piece on the
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> subject and summise the only good reason to use double (or triple) tell with
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> AS 1.3+ is if you want to avoid some undesirable launch behavior in the
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> target app.
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It's "surmise". And you have surmised incorrectly.
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The double-tell serves to prevent/circumvent the "Where is app?" dialog in the
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most popular situations - but not in all situations.
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a)thanks, I'd not seen the word written until now and assumed I knew it's
spelling.b)Pros and cons of 2 methods which fit that description remember. I
stick with the surmise.
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Just a note: You may not be aware of this, but you come across as being
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slightly hell-bent on rebuking what people "in the know" are telling you -
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that's not going to get you very far here.
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JR
I was kinda hoping for some AS advice. Do you think I come across to people
"in the know" like that too?
------------------------outta the loop and into closet------Andy