RE: scripting terms (attachability)
RE: scripting terms (attachability)
- Subject: RE: scripting terms (attachability)
- From: Phi Sanders <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:09:50 -0500
This URL backs up the "menu items = attachable" argument
http://www.apple.com/applescript/enabled.00.html
"Attachability.
An attachable application is one which will allow the user to add scripts
to the application's menus and commands so that the scripts become part
of the application's interface."
The T-word, embeddable and ScriptMenuable are conspicuous
for their abscence... but I suppose a Script Menu is a part
of the interface and will concede the point...
~Phi
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Phi Sanders
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On 2/10/01, George Mack {email@hidden} said the following :
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Phi Sanders <email@hidden> said, on Wed, 7 Feb 2001
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18:45:28 -0500:
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>>What great development is it to have a Script menu?
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>>I think it's very little conceptually... although few enough apps have
them.
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>>So, (in my mind at least) an app with a script menu is simply "scriptable",
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>>and I would reserve "attachable" for apps whose objects and functions can
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>>be "extended" via OSA Scripts :
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>>FaceSpan, BBedit, Script Debugger, Smile, Style, et al.
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Sorry I'm a bit behind in catching up -- had to clear over a month's
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worth of digests due to a huge project I was buried in. If this is no
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longer of interest then skip my post!
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I agree that having a Scripts menu is *convenient* but not a
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category's degree of difference as is implied by "attachable".
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I had thought that "attachable" was roughly what we have been
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identifying as "tinkerable": that the builtin operations could be
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fundamentally adjusted by user-generated scripts. So for instance
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rather than just setting a premade preference flag for the app, you
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could rewrite the sequence of events begun by a "Save" command, for
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example.
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It doesn't make sense to me that simply being able to direct an app
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to do some things, even complicated things, via a script would
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qualify it as more than, well, scriptable; isn't that what was
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supposed to happen? It's the ability to create NEW default behaviors
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that sort of provides a benchmark. The Scripts menu only means that
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you don't have to launch Script Editor to invoke the action. (How
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having OSAMenu connects to all of this, I can't even guess...)
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Well, Apple can use the terms however it decides, and I certainly
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can't make anyone else change their usage whether I or Apple agree.
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"It's my opinion but ... I could be wrong."
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George
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