Re: AppleScript TID bug OS 10.2.5?
Re: AppleScript TID bug OS 10.2.5?
- Subject: Re: AppleScript TID bug OS 10.2.5?
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 08:29:00 -0400
on 03-04-24 8:00 AM, John Delacour at email@hidden wrote:
>
It is also quite unnecessary to say "Applescript's....."
This seems to be true as a practical matter these days, but is it entirely
safe?
My old, original 1993 ASLG always uses "AppleScript's text item delimiters",
explaining that Text Item Delimiters was then (and is now, as far as I know)
the only property of the global variable 'AppleScript'. The ASLG explains,
"You can use the global variable AppleScript to get properties of
AppleScript itself rather than properties of the current target." Note that
this quote uses the permissive "can," implying that, as you say, it is not
required.
In those days, the Scriptable Text Editor also had a 'text item delimiters"
property. If you wanted to use AppleScript's text item delimiters property
with a tell block targeted at STE, you had to use "AppleScript's text item
delimiters".
I wonder if there are any applications these days that have their own "text
item delimiters" property....
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