Re: Scripting "Startup Disk" revisited
Re: Scripting "Startup Disk" revisited
- Subject: Re: Scripting "Startup Disk" revisited
- From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 01:14:41 +0000
This from David Glass - dated 16-11-02 4.46 pm:
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Also, I just told the Finder to restart; I think the Apple folks frown on
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scripting System Events as it may not always be available.
That was the position pre-Jaguar, but...
This from Paul Berkowitz - dated 26-9-02 2.43 am:
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No, Chris [Espinosa] specifically announced in person on the AppleScript Users
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list at the time that Jaguar was released that he had changed his mind and his
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advice. First of all, System Events will be sticking around for the
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foreseeable future. Secondly, they've now started adding new commands to
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System Events, which will never be added to the Finder: "Legacy" items and
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commands in the Finder are just legacy. Thirdly, it's faster sending the
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commands to System Events. So you've got the all-clear to use it.
Regards,
Nick
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