Re: Set visible
Re: Set visible
- Subject: Re: Set visible
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 02:44:32 +0100
Doug McNutt wrote:
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>The question is: do you know about application dictionaries,
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AppleScript is advertised by Apple to be a "natural English", "for the
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rest of us", scripting language.
This "English-ness" makes AppleScript code easier to read. It doesn't make
it any simpler to put language structures together, or know what features
are available, or understand how the language works. For that, you have to
sit down and learn things. It's all terribly conventional and dull when you
get down to it, but that's The Way Things Are [1].
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It is unfair to flame a user of AppleScript for trying a term which Apple
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uses all over the place. 99% of learning AppleScript is trying things out.
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That ought to be encouraged.
There's a difference between experimenting with new concepts and features
that you've read about to get a feel for how they operate and their
potential uses, and pure blind guesswork in the hope that semi-random
typings will get lucky enough to compile and execute. [A million monkeys,
etc.] If anything's unfair [2], it's that the technology could do far more
to aid users (e.g. by making the information found in application
dictionaries _much_ more accessible), but doesn't.
2c
has
[1] Authoring tools could go an awful lot further in moving some of this
burden away from the [non-professional?] user and onto the machine (just as
a graphical UI brings certain benefits and efficiencies that a command-line
one can't provide), but seem to be in no particular hurry to do so, alas (I
guess old habits die hard). So for now you're mostly stuck with doing the
legwork yourself.
[2] Paul's post didn't look like a flame to me, btw; I think that was a bit
unfair.
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