Re: Activating applet or app?
Re: Activating applet or app?
- Subject: Re: Activating applet or app?
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 09:00:56 +1000
On 9/4/02 8:26 AM +1000, Paul Berkowitz, email@hidden, wrote:
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I'm writing a dew scripts now for an app (Excel) which doesn't have a Script
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menu, so the scripts will be applets. Naturally, when the script has to open
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display dialogs, either the applet has to activate, or it will activate
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Excel and set the display dialog within the Excel block.
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Does anyone have any opinions on which is better? And for that matter,
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whether it also makes a difference while the script is doing other things
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such as text and file manipulations, some of which might go on for a bit.
I don't think there's a hard and fast answer. Some apps are much faster in
the background -- FileMaker is the classic example, but screen redraw can
slow down other apps too. Sometimes people want to see something happening,
and are inclined to start clicking around if they don't. And more apps seem
to want to be in front under OS X.
One of the main things to aim for is consistency. There can be something
very annoying about a script that activates for some dialogs and not others.
--
Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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