Re: applescript-users digest, Vol 2 #179 - 6 msgs
Re: applescript-users digest, Vol 2 #179 - 6 msgs
- Subject: Re: applescript-users digest, Vol 2 #179 - 6 msgs
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 08:52:16 -0800
On 1/3/01 6:28 AM, Stephen Gross <email@hidden> wrote
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> If you open up an application w/ Script Editor you get the dictionary for
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> that app with its commands, classes, properties, and elements. Not really
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> the same, but it is useful when you need to know certain commands for
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> controlling that app.
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>
Can you explain how to do this? I tried opening an application in Script
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Editor,
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but it wouldn't list the file in the open file menu. I tried the different
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filemasks, but no dice.
You have to use "open dictionary," not "open script"--and the application
has to have an 'aete' resource.
--Michelle
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