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Re: Where is the Finder Dictionary?
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Re: Where is the Finder Dictionary?


  • Subject: Re: Where is the Finder Dictionary?
  • From: Helmut Fuchs <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 17:02:45 +0200

At 20:25 Uhr +0600 16.09.2001, Rachel Cogent wrote:
I think I have found the AppleScript dictionary and opened it in the help
Viewer.

? ... ??

Hm. From your last postings I gather that there is some misunderstanding. Help Viewer has nothing to do with dictionaries - unless you want to script Help Viewer, in which case you'd look up its dictionary.

Applications that offer support for AppleScript include a dictionary within themselves that can be read by software used to write AppleScripts - like Script Editor, Smile, ScriptDebugger and so on.

So when you use the "Open Dictionary..." menu in Script Editor it asks you which dictionary you want to open. Now simply select the Application that you want information about. If you want to know what the Finder offers in terms of scriptability for example, then simply select "Open Dictionary...", look up the "Finder" Application in your system folder and select that.

When you've done that, a dictionary window pops up in which you can look up what terms the application understands. This also works for control panels and scripting additions (avoid the Startup Disk control panel, as it's not a good example ;-)

HTH,

Helmut


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