Re: Signature appPath launch with nested appName tells...
Re: Signature appPath launch with nested appName tells...
- Subject: Re: Signature appPath launch with nested appName tells...
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 17:18:13 -0500
Email server wierdness seams to have eaten my previous post, if this appears
twice, I apologize.
on 3/7/01 10:55 AM, Emmanuel wrote:
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At 23:10 +0100 6/03/01, Harald E Brandt wrote:
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> *****
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> * Oh yes.....
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> * I have one other question, although not an AppleScript question:
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> *
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> * Is there any way of increasing the font size of those standard Help files?
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> * I am running 1600x1200 on my 22" screen, which is just fine for most
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> things,
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> * except those mac format Help files which are really tiny tiny... bascially
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> * requiring me to change resolution of the monitor...
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> *****
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Seems unlikely - they are just html.
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>
Emmanuel
on 3/7/01 10:55 AM, Emmanuel wrote:
>
At 23:10 +0100 6/03/01, Harald E Brandt wrote:
>
>
> *****
>
> * Oh yes.....
>
> * I have one other question, although not an AppleScript question:
>
> *
>
> * Is there any way of increasing the font size of those standard Help files?
>
> * I am running 1600x1200 on my 22" screen, which is just fine for most
>
> things,
>
> * except those mac format Help files which are really tiny tiny... bascially
>
> * requiring me to change resolution of the monitor...
>
> *****
>
>
Seems unlikely - they are just html.
>
>
Emmanuel
I think that this statement is oxymoronic. That's not a jab at you
Emmanuel : )
Since they are html you can open them in a browser and there ( in some
browsers ) you can enlarge the text easily.
Unfortunately many of the links are not really links. They are calls to
run applescripts!
help:runscript="AppleScript Guidebook:scr:setupgoto.scr"STRING="AppleScrip
t Guidebook:bscscom:pgs:bscscom.01.html"
these appear to be calls to handlers within the help folder. this one
calls...
--Processed with Listserv Mangler v1.0 ; )
on +event helphdhp; (the page_path)
tell application "Finder"
copy the bounds of the window of the desktop to {h, v,
monitor_width, monitor_height}
end tell
set the help_folder to (the path to help folder) as text
tell application "Help Viewer"
activate
set bounds of window 1 to {6, 42, 480, monitor_height - 6}
try
set the help_file to ((the help_folder & the page_path) as text)
as alias
open the help_file
on error error_message
display dialog error_message buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end try
end tell
end +event helphdhp;
Hmmmm. I wonder if the applescript plugin that runs scripts in your browser
would make them function? I'll have to play with that tonight.
p.s.
From the Applescript plugin documentation...
NOTE: The current helpviewer format also allows a script to be run. This is
done by making use of the anchor tag like:
<a href='help:runscript="script-to-run" string="optional parameter"'>Run a
script<a>
Notice the use of single quotes around the complete link and the use of
double quotes around each of the two parts. Unfortunately there is no way to
route these links to an embed, so this tag is very specific for the
Helpviewer.
Using the plugin with control=label you can make documents that look the
same as the Apple HelpViewer, but it is not possible to reuse the html.
--
Paul Skinner