Re: Applescript with Eudora
Re: Applescript with Eudora
- Subject: Re: Applescript with Eudora
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:35:22 -0700
At 14:47 -0300 4/24/2002, Bill Briggs wrote:
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At 9:21 AM -0600 24/04/02, David Crowe wrote:
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>On an aside, it seems to me that this is the fundamental reason why
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>AppleScript is not more popular. Eudora may only have implemented
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>part of the language and their documentation is virtually
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>non-existent (their manual on their website was last updated in
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>1995).
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Frustrating it is. Hound them we must.
Hounding a company about a product whose existence is hanging by a thread
at the board of directors level may not be what one wants to do. (I was
VERY encouraged to see beta 5.1.1 appear for all of Windows, ancient Mac,
and Mac OS X...I was not encouraged by the fact that not one of these betas
has an expiration date.)
Making requests is fine (several people making similar requests is fine).
The same person making the same request over and over ("hounding") is
likely to be counter productive.
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>Apple doesn't consider it their job to document all the
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>capabilities of AppleScript-capable applications.
Apple can't. It doesn't know the implementation. It doesn't know when the
implementation has changed (cf BBEdit recently; Stuffit Deluxe before that).
Apple could more strongly encourage developers to document the
implementation. And part of that would be doing so themselves, at which
they have a mixed record (FileMaker does very well, Mail.app not, etc.)
Unless Apple changes the nature of the 'aete' data, the Dictionary can't be
the only documentation for any but simple cases. And it wasn't intended to
be (it was originally intended to be in part a discovery mechanism for
other applications). And such a change would produce at least 5 (more
likely 10) years of confusion with the old and the new side by side.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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