Re: Source Text of Script Objects
Re: Source Text of Script Objects
- Subject: Re: Source Text of Script Objects
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 14:27:46 +1100
On 1/1/02 1:58 PM +1000, Paul Berkowitz, email@hidden, wrote:
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I can't imagine they want to
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tackle 'puppet menu' (basically a 'do menu' for all apps) but since there
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are no macro utilities in OS X to do this, it would be a great boon -
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basically it would make all non-scriptable apps scriptable if they are
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frontmost.
And they'd probably be advertised as such, and it would be the perfect
excuse for developers to fob of requests for scriptability :-( I can see the
philosophical objection.
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I've never used 'play sound' myself, but it seems a fairly basic
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requirement.
Yep.
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'munge' is a simple, easy 'search and replace' with extras -
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yes, all that can be done by tids, but really there ought to be a built-in
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osax for it.
I'm not sure I agree. But see below.
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The others:
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type text
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keys pressed
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the clock
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are the most essential of the most essential. (Only 'the clock' and Tanaka's
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can give you the short date in the user's exact Date & Time format, and the
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clock is better, complete with the correct separators, leading zeroes, etc..
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We shouldn't need to make do with approximate, non-localized versions and
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workarounds. the first two need no explanation.
I'd go along with those.
I guess others that come to mind would be:
* Some way to deal with screen settings -- get and set resolutions, depths,
etc.
* A format number facility. Could probably be combined with date formatting.
* A simple progress bar. it could be as simple as barber pole and a line of
text -- just something to say hang on, something's happening.
* A better dialog. Not Dialog Director, but something better than
three-buttons-plus-TE.
* A sort command.
* A Unicode equivalent of ASCII character/number.
* Regular expressions. A single tool with 1001 uses.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden