Re: Scripting in OSX: Classic osaxen for Classic apps?
Re: Scripting in OSX: Classic osaxen for Classic apps?
- Subject: Re: Scripting in OSX: Classic osaxen for Classic apps?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 08:43:21 -0700
On 6/9/01 3:23 AM, "Bill Cheeseman" <email@hidden> wrote:
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on 6/9/01 4:43 AM, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
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> According to a page in the Help for OS X, you're supposed to be able to
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> compile scripts in the OS X Script Editor which refer to classic scripting
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> additions (for Classic or OS 8/9 use, of course) by enclosing the osax terms
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> in a 'using terms from' construction, then wrapping that in a tell block to
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> a classic app.
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> Except that 'using terms from' is meant to take an application reference,
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> and osaxen are not applications (it won't compile if you try with
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> 'application "osaxName" ').
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I pointed this out in my report on AppleScript in Mac OS X. I have no
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solution. I brought it up with Chris Nebel privately at the time, but it got
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lost in our other communications about Mac OS X. My assumption is that the
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note in Apple Help is just wrong -- it works with scripting additions that
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take the form of background applications, not otherwise.
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Thanks, Bill. I actually had gone back to your page where I thought I had
seen a reference to this, and found it, but missed the "does not work" bit.
I have also been also told, second-hand (no particulars), that someone at
WWDC recently had advised using the file application path of the osax, so
that's why I tried that. Doesn't work either.
I sure hope that our valued osax developers are willing and able to
carbonize their invaluable osaxen before too long. Greg Lemperle-Kerr has
written me that he does intend to carbonize Akua Sweets in due course.
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Paul Berkowitz