Re: Dialects (was CarbonLib 1.3.1)
Re: Dialects (was CarbonLib 1.3.1)
- Subject: Re: Dialects (was CarbonLib 1.3.1)
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 14:41:01 -0700
On 5/12/01 2:19 PM, "Andy Wylie" <email@hidden> wrote:
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on 13/5/01 3:44 AM, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
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> Thanks, John and Rob.
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> I removed the one empty subfolder from Scripting Additions (so I don't know
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> if it would have caused a problem or not). I haven't had Dialects in there
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> for ages - not since OS 9.0. I've now installed CarbonLib 1.3.1 and have had
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> no problems, and have seen performance improve (speed) in various apps, as
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> others have reported, as well.
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> Probably someone should amend the TIL article.
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hi Paul,
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I occasionally find the dialects dictionary useful and note Smile's
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find definition will open it so I'm curious what sort of access you have.
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I tried to find info on the dialects function awhile back but didn't come up
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with much so I'm also curious about it's function and changing role with AS
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versions.
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But Smile will open the AppleScript extension's "Dictionary" -- navigate to
the Extensions folder and open AppleScript with the Open Dictionary menu
item -- which gives you the same thing as English Dialect did in OS 8.6, but
up-to-date. (We have been cautioned by some people here not to call it the
AppleScript Dictionary, so I call it the AppleScript "Dictionary" or
sometimes the non-Dictionary. basically, it's the AppleScript Dictionary,
the same as what you've been seeing in the English Dialect pre-OS 9.0. AS no
longer uses the Dialects folder -- it's just sitting there doing nothing,
and somewhat out-of-date if you have OS 9.0.x or 9.1.
AppleScript got rid of dialects other than English a long time ago, because
they didn't work well. So there's no (recent) loss.
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Paul Berkowitz