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Re: Finding Terminology Conflicts
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Re: Finding Terminology Conflicts


  • Subject: Re: Finding Terminology Conflicts
  • From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:20:07 +1000

That's right - the tell block is displayed here because the script is run from within Filemaker. The code is developed in Smile and then pasted (without the surrounding tell block) into a FMPro ScriptMaker step: Send AppleScript(). Filemaker compiles the code and in doing so, breaks or bends the code. Developing within the tell block alerts me to these conflicts. For instance, the read and write commands from Standard Additions conflict with Filemaker's own read and write commands. Filemaker won't compile code that contains instructions to the standard additions read/write commands. It's necessary to use the raw codes, <<event rdwrread>> and <<event rdwrwrit>> to pass those commands to the standard Additions osax. I'd been using the code that contained "the clipboard as record" for several weeks without problem. The other day I altered the script library and recompiled it, then I experienced problems. When I opened the script library to inspect it the script appears in English (below) and there is nothing to suggest that it is Filemaker's <<cRow>> rather than AppleScript's <<reco>> because both are described as "record". I'm hoping that there are AppleScript tools that will display the raw code in this way.

On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 05:16 PM, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:

I've been using the same development environment all along, what is it that makes the code decide it wants to use FMPro's library instead of Applescript's?

The fact that the script told Filemaker to do it; i.e.,.

tell "filemaker pro"
the clipboard as record
-- can't make the clipboard into a record
-- it is the wrong data type
end tell

--Michelle

We're not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We're spiritual beings having a human experience.


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