Re: Applescript with Eudora
Re: Applescript with Eudora
- Subject: Re: Applescript with Eudora
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 22:05:49 -0300
At 5:35 PM -0700 24/04/02, John W Baxter wrote:
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.
I wasn't thinking of one person writing over and over again. Many
people writing once might be useful. I've yet to do that, though I've
compiled a list of requests for when I do send that letter.
>>Apple doesn't consider it their job to document all the
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.
Well, I didn't write the bit you're responding too, but I agree that
the developers should document their own implementation and include
copious examples in the text or in the form of sample scripts, or
both. For their part, Apple should certainly encourage it, and it
would be nice if they promoted a more uniform approach to scripting
implementations as they did for the Mac's UI. Some of my favourite
applications have behaviours that are not typical of AppleScript and
it didn't need to be that way.
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