Re: Apple: Please deal with basics
Re: Apple: Please deal with basics
- Subject: Re: Apple: Please deal with basics
- From: garbanzito <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 00:17:03 -0600
at 2002 04 20, 19:01 -0700, they whom i call Paul Berkowitz wrote:
On 4/20/02 4:44 PM, "garbanzito" <email@hidden> wrote:
> at 2002 04 20, 06:54 -0400, they whom i call Thomas England wrote:
>>
>> *A recordable finder
i think they need to just fix Finder in the first place
before worrying about making it recordable.
But they have. the OS X Finder is incomparably better than the old Finder.
Things work. There are just a few things which haven't yet been implemented
in X.
i guess i was being a little terse since it's off topic (and
recordability in Finder probably will be implemented by the
Finder team, whom i hope are too busy fixing things to read
this list).
i wasn't talking about the feature set or whether it's
better in concept, i meant basic stability and speed. Finder
quits on me more often than any other application. it locks
up on FireWire transfers (perhaps an OS problem) and
corrupts volumes. it's extremely slow on connection to
iDisks. it's slow in list view and it doesn't remember its
settings. those are more important to me than recordability.
>> *A TypeText OSAX
i think when applications have a good scripting
implementation such an OSAX is much less necessary. you
might look at QuicKeys, though, and see if it works for this
kind of purpose.
You can hardly ask users of your scripts to buy QuicKeys. It's understood
that such an osax is usually needed when developers have _not_ implemented
some UI feature.
actually, i do sometimes ask users of my scripts that. i do
projects where QuicKeys is an insignificant expense compared
to the problems it solves. i don't sell scripts (much less
ones that need kludges like TypeText) on the open market,
though i realize a few people do. (i'm also not sure
QuicKeys solves the TypeText problem as well on Mac OS X as
it did on 9.)
my main point was that TypeText is just a crude workaround
for poor AppleEvents implementations in applications. i
think if Apple supplied an official TypeText OSAX that would
just encourage more poor implementations -- i'd rather work
things through an Object Model.
--
steve harley email@hidden
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