Re: solutions to scripting addition terminology confilicts
Re: solutions to scripting addition terminology confilicts
- Subject: Re: solutions to scripting addition terminology confilicts
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 23:21:03 -0800
At 12:10 AM -0500 1/26/02, email@hidden wrote:
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I made a copy of an AppleScriptable application, named it "Terminology", and
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removed its aete dictionary resource. I then created a new aete, with the
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single event "tock", which had the same event code as "the ticks" from Jon's
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commands.
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I then wrote and ran this script:
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using terms from application "Terminology"
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tock
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end using terms from
Nicely done. Now the question is, how small of an app can you have? Can it just be an aete and an scsz resource? I'll bet it can, as long as it's an APPL file type.
Of course, this doesn't stop the coercions from firing, but I guess that's not the complaint at the moment.
I would also like to remind everyone that we grafted scripting additions on at the last minute when it became apparent that PowerTalk had scammed all the spare Finder people and we weren't going to get ANY scripting support into the Finder. We needed some way of adding file system scripting to AppleScript so that you could do *something* with it out of the box, and scripting additions were the answer we came up with.
We would much rather have had the scriptable Finder, although it did finally come along thanks to the efforts of Greg Anderson. The last time I talked with him, he was just back from a stint at Apple Japan. I don't know where he is these days.
Jon