Re: Where is the Finder Dictionary?
Re: Where is the Finder Dictionary?
- Subject: Re: Where is the Finder Dictionary?
- From: Rachel Cogent <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:29:35 +0600
AH-HA! I found it!
Thanks helmet, I always wondered what that file was for!
maybe I should make a folder of aliases to access those dictionaries easily.
Rachel
http://www.gnarlodious.com
Entity Helmut Fuchs spoke thus:
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At 20:25 Uhr +0600 16.09.2001, Rachel Cogent wrote:
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> I think I have found the AppleScript dictionary and opened it in the help
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> Viewer.
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? ... ??
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Hm. From your last postings I gather that there is some
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misunderstanding. Help Viewer has nothing to do with dictionaries -
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unless you want to script Help Viewer, in which case you'd look up
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its dictionary.
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Applications that offer support for AppleScript include a dictionary
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within themselves that can be read by software used to write
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AppleScripts - like Script Editor, Smile, ScriptDebugger and so on.
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So when you use the "Open Dictionary..." menu in Script Editor it
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asks you which dictionary you want to open. Now simply select the
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Application that you want information about. If you want to know what
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the Finder offers in terms of scriptability for example, then simply
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select "Open Dictionary...", look up the "Finder" Application in your
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system folder and select that.
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When you've done that, a dictionary window pops up in which you can
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look up what terms the application understands. This also works for
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control panels and scripting additions (avoid the Startup Disk
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control panel, as it's not a good example ;-)
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HTH,
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Helmut