Re: Using AppleScript Guidebook in OS X?
Re: Using AppleScript Guidebook in OS X?
- Subject: Re: Using AppleScript Guidebook in OS X?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 07:15:28 -0700
On 6/23/02 5:20 AM, "Sven Ryen" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 22.06.2002 17:59, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Are there any remedies to make the content viewable in OS X, or is all the
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>> content of this guidebook outdated anyway?
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> Others here have reported that you the files are HTML. I'm not sure whether
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> there's a simpler way to get at them, but installing them in OS 9, then
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> fishing them out of the Help folder in System Folder, and viewing them in a
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> browser like IE in OS X (or maybe even putting them in some Help folder in
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> X?) should do it. Maybe you can even get at them from the installer without
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> installing them in OS 9 - I'm not sure.
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Inspecting the HTML content of the files in BBEdit revealed an easy fix:
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Change all occurrences of "setupgoto.scr" in the html files at the top level
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of the individual books (such as "spch/spchRTOC.html") to "setupgoto.scpt",
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and you should be able (after you've manually installed them in the
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"Documentation/Help/AppleScript Guidebook" folder) to view the content of
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the Guidebooks without booting into MacOS 9.
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Caveat: The contents of the "books" (example scripts, etc) may require Mac
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OS 9 to work, but you should be able to successfully browse the help content
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from inside the Mac OS X Help Viewer.
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Hope this was useable info. Let me know if the above steps do not work for
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you, and I'll try to add additional information.
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This is great info, Sven.
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Paul Berkowitz
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