Re: Where is Script Menu?
Re: Where is Script Menu?
- Subject: Re: Where is Script Menu?
- From: vectormation <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 14:36:59 -0400
The ScriptMenu in the menubar is awesome, and to my preference... but I'd
accept a "Scripts" menu in the Apple menu - it needs to be globally
available, and it needs to be there by default on every system.
As a prelude to a guerilla tactic, what are the redistribution rules on
the menu? Perhaps every scriptable OS X app could install the script menu
rather than implement it's own.
~Phi
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on 10/6/01 6:54 PM, Michael Grant at email@hidden wrote:
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> At 15:21 -0700 10/6/2001, John W Baxter wrote:
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>>> Note that the ScriptMenu was one of those hacks that was met with violent
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>>> condemnation from the human interface group, which is why it is an
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>>> unsupported download and not part of the product.
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> So does the HIG prefer ScriptRunner (X-P) or no convenient access to
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> scripts at all?
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Various Apple-source developer documents and comments from Apple engineers
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on developer mailing lists suggest that the menu bar extras are intended to
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be limited to control of hardware only, and that only Apple will be able to
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put menus in the menu bar. Since the ScriptMenu is not a hardware control
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menu, it is understandable why the HI folks objected to it. (This doesn't
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mean I agree with the HI folks on this issue.)
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Dock Extras are now gone, too. Apple isn't developing any and has made clear
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that it will not publish the API for developers to write their own. In fact,
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the OS support for them may disappear after Mac OS X 10.1.
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The new official HI user interface for menus that used to appear in Mac OS 9
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menu bar icons or Mac OS X Dock Extras is the application menu that a
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developer can install in an application's Dock icon. So, maybe Apple could
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implement ScriptMenu's functionality in a Dock menu for Script Editor (not
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likely), or maybe Mark Alldritt could do it off the Script Debugger 3.0 Dock
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icon. The problem with this is that, I believe, the application must be
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running in order to access the menu, even if the application icon is
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installed in the Dock.
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Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
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Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA
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http://www.quecheesoftware.com
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