Re: Bounding Rectangle
Re: Bounding Rectangle
- Subject: Re: Bounding Rectangle
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 02:30:31 +0200
At 11:28 PM +0200 28/7/02, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>
>
On 7/28/02 12:13 PM, I wrote:
>
>
> Can someone tell me where the class 'bounding rectangle' is defined? Many
>
> applications define 'bounds' properties of their Class 'window' as having
>
> the class 'bounding rectangle', almost always in the Standard Suite, or
>
> occasionally just 'rectangle'.
>
>
>
> OK, where is 'bounding rectangle' defined?
Paul, I think that now the time has come that you know that there still is
a fraction of the terminology that even Smile hides to you. It (err... one
part of it actually) is the "named suite". Each dictionary may have a
"named suite", where programmers gather the terms that they want that
"work" (they take the gorgeous color that you've defined for the
application keywords), but that they cannot publish for one reason or
another.
Note that one reason may be to make shorter dictionaries so that the users
does not waste their time with quasi-obvious definitions.
Browsing the (OS9) Finder's dictionary for an example, I see in the first
lines "duplicate blah blah to "location reference" blah ...". Is "location
reference" defined anywhere? No. Obviously it's exclusively a Finder's
term, but it looks more like a placeholder. Would we like to "make new
location reference"? No. The programmer has defined "location reference" in
the Finder's "named suite" (I suppose).
OTOH, I don't say that I see a reason why we wouldn't find "bounding
rectangle", and I think that it is no good for AppleScript that users have
to cope with such confusing situations as having no reference in the
dictionaries about what a bounding rectangle is.
Finally, note that the "rectangle" ("crec" = c-lass rec-tangle) is probably
one of those empty, virtual types which Apple had defined in an early
Babelizing vision for apps which handle rectangles (not QD ones).
Emmanuel
_______________________________________________
applescript-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives:
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.