Re: No 'Result Window' in Script Editor (Mac OS X)
Re: No 'Result Window' in Script Editor (Mac OS X)
- Subject: Re: No 'Result Window' in Script Editor (Mac OS X)
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:35:32 -0700
At 0:25 -0700 10/19/2001, Michelle Steiner wrote:
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On 10/18/01 9:20 PM, George Clark <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> For some odd reason, I don't seem to have a Result Window in Script Editor.
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>If
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>> I select 'Show Result' from the Controls menu, any other open windows
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>>dim as
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>> though there's another window in front, but no Result Window is visible. Is
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>> there a cure for this?
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>But then I played around with things a little more...I reset the screen
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>resolution a couple of times, and suddenly the Result Window was there. Very
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>strange.
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I would guess that the result window was appearing off screen--it may
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have been dragged to a point under high resolution, where it was off
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screen under a lower resolution. There are other possibilities, such as
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opening it in a second monitor and then on a system with one monitor.
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And if Michelle is right (I suspect so) the problem needs to be reported as
a bug against Script Editor. A window whose saved position is fully
off-screen is supposed to be moved on-screen when opened. Unless, of
course, Apple has thrown away that part of the HIG along with so much else.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA