Re: Organize your scipts and scraps?
Re: Organize your scipts and scraps?
- Subject: Re: Organize your scipts and scraps?
- From: Cal <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:29:34 -0500
Dale Saukerson <email@hidden> wrote:
How do some of you experienced folks organize your code, clippings,
snippets, docs, etc?
I'm starting to collect an unruly mess of things.
I'm thinking along the lines of a central database to hold this stuff.
Can anyone point me towards a FileMaker template? I'd rather
customize the chassis than reinvent the wheel.
Any better ideas?
The smoothest and easiest way is to use ScriptBase -- systemwide
database for AppleScript. Anything that can be put in a variable can
be put into ScriptBase -- numbers, text, aliases to folders and
files, lists, records, pictures, state information, scripts, and
more. In addition to holding scripts and pieces, it's easy to share
data between scripts running on your machine at the same or different
times. A single line of AppleScript store a value, a single line
gets it back. You don't need to run an application, it's available
all the time to AppleScript. You don't need to worry about where or
how the data is stored...it's completely seamless, and very
AppleScript. And it's been in use for seven years. Others on this
list use it.
In Scripter, there's a browser for ScriptBase that lets you see the
directory and view and replace the contents of the items. You also
can save scripts in editing windows directly into ScriptBase, and
open scripts into editing windows.
A single-user license of ScriptBase is included in the Scripter
package, or is available separately.
http://www.mainevent.com
[For trivia buffs: ScriptBase is the only piece of software I
designed and wrote entirely myself.]
Cal