Re: Where is Script Menu?
Re: Where is Script Menu?
- Subject: Re: Where is Script Menu?
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 10:38:22 -0400
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?
Various Apple-source developer documents and comments from Apple engineers
on developer mailing lists suggest that the menu bar extras are intended to
be limited to control of hardware only, and that only Apple will be able to
put menus in the menu bar. Since the ScriptMenu is not a hardware control
menu, it is understandable why the HI folks objected to it. (This doesn't
mean I agree with the HI folks on this issue.)
Dock Extras are now gone, too. Apple isn't developing any and has made clear
that it will not publish the API for developers to write their own. In fact,
the OS support for them may disappear after Mac OS X 10.1.
The new official HI user interface for menus that used to appear in Mac OS 9
menu bar icons or Mac OS X Dock Extras is the application menu that a
developer can install in an application's Dock icon. So, maybe Apple could
implement ScriptMenu's functionality in a Dock menu for Script Editor (not
likely), or maybe Mark Alldritt could do it off the Script Debugger 3.0 Dock
icon. The problem with this is that, I believe, the application must be
running in order to access the menu, even if the application icon is
installed in the Dock.
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