Re: AppleScript Try
Re: AppleScript Try
- Subject: Re: AppleScript Try
- From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:53:29 +1000
At 2:28 PM -0700 28/8/02, Philip Aker wrote:
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 12:42 PM, Christopher Nebel wrote:
As the "on error" component of the try block is optional why can't
we write something like this:
try to tell application "Finder" to set name of finderReference
to fileName
Because that's not how the syntax is defined, but that's a
non-answer. Quite honestly, this never occurred to me. I regard
the whole idea of blindly suppressing errors with some suspicion,
but if you want to write a bug for it, go right ahead.
I'd rather you spend the time on other things myself. For instance,
could you add something like <Command-Shift-O> for the "Open
Dictionary..." menu item in Script Editor and possibly get the
dictionary list dialog to remember its size and placement?
Laziness spurred the original question. I'm not submitting a bug
report on this because I consider it to be an issue of language
completeness (cross the t's and dot the i's) rather than an error.
Decisions on the behaviour of the language is something that I'll
leave to people who know more about it than me. However, I wouldn't
consider improvements to Script Editor to have priority over the
development of the language. Do you have rely on Script Editor in a
classroom/group setting or are you using it as your editor?
--
Malcolm Fitzgerald
Database Manager
The Australian Society of Authors
phone: 02 9318 0877 fax: 02 9318 0530
http://www.asauthors.org mailto:email@hidden
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