Re: New Address Book in Jaguar 10.2...
Re: New Address Book in Jaguar 10.2...
- Subject: Re: New Address Book in Jaguar 10.2...
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:04:58 -0400
On 08/20/2002 15:20, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Why does this not surprise me? Entourage AppleScripting is implemented by
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Mac developers who understand AppleScript thoroughly. A lot of the Apple
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apps' scripting appears to be have been implemented by Unix engineers told
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to "add AppleScript" without really understanding it. I look forward (sort
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of) to getting to grips with this next week when I get Jaguar
I've already got a nice legal copy, (came with the new TiBook), so based on
*that*...
You have an email entry, but there's no difference between work and home
other than a label.
There's an entry called 'contact info', but I have no idea what it refers
to, as it has a subset of 'person', yet doesn't show up in 'person'...it
appears to be a random container that doesn't have any real functionality.
To enter multiple street lines is one line of text with carriage
returns...come on, really.
There appears to be no import function via AppleScript, so the only way to
get data into the thing en masse is via a BIG repeat loop and lots of 'make
new...' statements...now *there's* efficiency.
Of course, you can import from the UI...vCard and LDIF(read import into
Netscape/Mozilla and export again...this is *totally* manual, as neither of
those apps have any decent scripting) only...
"Dear Address Book coders, there's this *fascinating* little concept called
*delimited text*...it's a nice standard way to *move data* between
databases"...what will they think of next.
Even sillier, since 'import' is MIA, you can't even script the limited
import formats available.
There is no export functionality. None. No where. Not in the UI, not in the
dictionary.
So, what you have is a central database with no sane way to get data in, or
out of it, and a scripting dictionary that was designed by people who appear
to view AppleScript as some perverted form of Perl. It's a nice toy, but
compared to Entourage, or even Eudora, bloody useless unless Jaguar is the
first address book you've ever used, or the only thing you have data in is
Netscape.
Somebody let me know when Apple's Application teams, (read: NOT Chris E.,
Chris N., Sal, and the rest of the AppleScript team, but rather the iApp
people and the rest of Apple, with the exception of iDVD), actually start
taking AppleScript seriously. Quite honestly...with implementations as poor
as this one, I'm *really* amazed that there aren't constant Jack Daniel's,
and or Valium shipments to the AppleScript team...
john
--
"We ain't making no goddamn corn flakes here."
Col. Charlie Beckwith, founder of Delta Force
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