Re: Barriers to Applescript adoption
Re: Barriers to Applescript adoption
- Subject: Re: Barriers to Applescript adoption
- From: "John S. Baltutis" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:23:13 -0700
From today's MacFixIt page: AppleScript Manuals provides lists of manuals
in PDF format for learning how to use AppleScript.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50096>
At 13:20:00 +0100 on 27 Sep 2001, Nigel Smith <email@hidden> wrote:
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These things aren't exactly hidden. And even if you don't know the URL
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for the AppleScript web page, bringing up Help Center from the Script
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Editor and typing "web" in as the search term gives you a clickable link
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to the AppleScript page -- and even tells you the site has the reference
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manuals! And if that's too difficult, typing "applescript" into the
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search box on Apple's homepage returns the AppleScript page as top item,
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and that's only if you can't guess that AppleScript is software, so you
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get to it by following the "software" link off Apple's home page...
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OK, Apple don't exactly evangalise AppleScript, and almost admit as much
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themselves -- the first paragraph on the AppleScript page
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(<http://www.apple.com/applescript/>, in case you still haven't found
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it) says "Most Macintosh users don't realize there is a powerful hidden
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interface to their computers..." -- but the information is there, it is
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available, and it is *not* difficult to find.