Mac OS X Script Menu
Mac OS X Script Menu
- Subject: Mac OS X Script Menu
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 18:05:38 -0700
OK, so installing Script Menu creates /Library/Scripts/Basics/ (et al) and
the sample scripts.
And creates /Users/username/Library/Scripts/ into which to plant scripts of
one's own.
If I create a folder Basics in the /Users/john/Library/Scripts/ directory
and put a script into that Basics folder, what does happen is that my
Basics folder is listed separately (toward the bottom of the menu).
What *might* happen--I was experimenting to see whether it did
happen--would be to merge my Scripts folder with the machine's Scripts
folder. "Merge" would presumably mean that in case of name conflicts, "my"
script wins over the machine's script.
I'm not sure whether the observed behavior or the merging behavior (which
is similar to other situations in which the user, machine, network and
system domains are merged) would be better. I can certainly live with the
as-shipped behavior. If Apple's user testing showed this to be better, I'm
happy.
On the same note...is there a potential
/Network/Library/Scripts
folder? Does it merge with the machine domain's folder? The user's? Neither?
Thanks
And thanks, Apple for the Script menu. These little details are quite
minor compared with that.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA