Re: Scripting Palm Desktop (was Re: Saving an attachment from Entourage)
Re: Scripting Palm Desktop (was Re: Saving an attachment from Entourage)
- Subject: Re: Scripting Palm Desktop (was Re: Saving an attachment from Entourage)
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 18:57:37 -0800
On 11/10/01 8:32 AM, "Dave G" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Thanks for writing Allen,
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I have just downloaded 2 tutorials on Apple Script so I am still
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working at learning it. Your feedback does help. I believe that there
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is a developer on the Palm team I have seen posting to this list a
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few weeks ago. I certainly hope he hears your feedback. I have only
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recently discovered Palm Desktop for the Mac. And I love it. I know
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it is old but the features are so... nice! My brain just doesn't work
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as well in a strictly linear fashion. It is so incredibly nice to
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just drag all the contacts, files and notes for a project onto it's
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calender task step, or event date. Whew!
Palm Desktop's applescripting implementation is abominable. Its dictionary
bears no relation to what (sometimes) works. It appears to have been badly
done in the first place (when it was another app called, I think, 'Claris
Desktop' or similar), and then not to have changed when the app itself
changed. It is the perfect example of how not to implement AppleScript. You
are correct that someone from PD has been openly corresponding here for some
time. I suspect he must be ashamed of the AS implementation and probably is
directed to other aspects of development by his superiors, but I really have
no idea. I've been wondering for some time if he was ever going to give some
sort of explanation reconciling his AS interests with his application's
tawdry implementation, so perhaps he would like to take this as an
invitation to tell us about future AS plans for PD. (I hope he will excuse
me for not remembering his name.) I won't touch it myself.
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Paul Berkowitz