Re: Can't save a script without .scpt extension ?
Re: Can't save a script without .scpt extension ?
- Subject: Re: Can't save a script without .scpt extension ?
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:41:09 -0400
On 08/21/2003 10:08, "Jon Pugh" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Am I missing something that's staring me in the face or is it impossible to
>
> save a script from Script Editor without that damn extension?
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>
Didn't you know, extensions are THE WAY now. Don't piss off Avie by clinging
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to ancient matadata. ;)
Both methods have their disadvantage. Blind reliance on name extensions
causes problems, because changing a part of a file name should NOT change
how the OS treats the file.
*however*, if the file shows up with no information whatsoever, and you find
out it's a jpeg, then tacking a .jpeg on the end is simpler much than
editing file types and creator codes.
File types and creator codes are much more elegant *when they work*, but
when they don't are, and always have been FAR too painful to fix. Apple
NEVER made that as easy as they should have. It's one reason why I always
bought MacLink Plust.
One great comment on file types and creator codes was, "Sure they're more
elegant. But they're also like a double-dot filename extension that I can
neither easily see or change. So they're not that much better in the end."
There is some validity to this, since if you randomly or incorrectly set the
file type and creator code, you get bad behavior too, so they aren't THAT
much better than naming a word file: file.MSWD.W8BN
As well, the OS really didn't DO much with the metadata other than using it
for opening files, setting icons, and some fairly obscure search tricks. In
this respect, OS X is actually *better* because depending on the file, you
can DO MORE with it...like not having to launch Quicktime Player just to
preview a movie.
In the end, I think Be did metadata better. They used a fairly common file
type identification methodology, (MIME types), and then they actually
integrated the metadata into how you used the OS at many levels. In this, it
wiped the floor with any version of the Mac OS ever released*.
*Copland would have come far closer.
john
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