Re: Parents/Child Scripts
Re: Parents/Child Scripts
- Subject: Re: Parents/Child Scripts
- From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 21:42:05 +1200
on 14/5/02 1:56 PM +1200: has wrote:
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Here's another problem example:
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on log x
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tell application "Smile" to log x
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end log
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So far, so cool. Except... what happens when the user uses 'log' on its
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own, without any argument (it is optional, after all). As I said before,
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there is no good solution to this problem. :(
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It already exists in Smile ;-> logVar("theVariableAsString")
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p.s. OT aside: your script also reminds me why I never use single,
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real-English words as identifiers. Some osax I've got installed decided
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that the term "message" belonged to it and "helpfully" turned it into
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keyword for me, resulting in a runtime error.
That would be Akua I guess...
display info : Create, update and destroy information windows.
[message string] -- The message(s) to display.
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This is why, in the absence of anything better, I'll prefix any such names with
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"the" - i.e. "theMessage", "theParameters". With all these osaxen around, the
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world isn't a safe place for uncompiled scripts with single-word variable names
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in them...:p
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underscores can trap you in Tanaka's too...
MT Get Info anything -- File (FileSpec, Alias or Fullpath)
about
creation_date/modification_date/data_size/resource_size/file_type/creator_ty
pe/is_alias/is_stationery/is_locked/is_busy/has_customIcon
how did you get a mention in there?
_____________________________ Andy
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