Re: Interesting... AppleScript X ??
Re: Interesting... AppleScript X ??
- Subject: Re: Interesting... AppleScript X ??
- From: Timothy Bates <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:01:42 +1000
Has said something like
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Both <duplicate (folder "foo" of disk "frank")> and the more obviously
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object-oriented <tell (folder "foo" of disk "frank") to duplicate> work
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but AS then completely drops the
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ball by failing to tell you in the documentation [dictionaries] which
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commands work on what objects: the user is generally left to work this out
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for themselves (yuk).
What a lovely (latent?) idea: create a viewer for the dictionary which turns
this on its head. That is the one weakness of the cal-model: you see "make"
but you have no idea what can be made.
If the dictionary automagically generated examples of how (and which) verbs
apply, that would be great.
tim
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