Re: More problems with File extensions & Displayed names
Re: More problems with File extensions & Displayed names
- Subject: Re: More problems with File extensions & Displayed names
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:14:18 -0800
On 2/5/02 7:28 AM, "Mr Tea" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I ask, because I noticed that the script files in my test folder (my own
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handiwork) didn't have the .scpt extension (hidden or otherwise) that is
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appended to the OS X supplied sample scripts. If this extension is
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important, should scripters be adding it to the names of all their
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compiled scripts? And shouldn't the script editor offer users an option
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to add it to the names of newly saved scripts by default?
Mr. Tea, as a relative newcomer to OS X, you're seeing only the most recent
behaviour in 10.1.2. In earlier versions of OS X, the extensions were not
always invisible, and in some cases, but not others, were essential. I
believe that they may still be essential in some cases, but tend to be
invisible now. Probably those sample scripts were written and packaged at a
different historical moment vis-`-vis extensions. And I suspect that we're
not finished yet with changes, and that - in the end - it will probably work
quite well.
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Paul Berkowitz