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: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:20:39 +0200
At 10:41 -0400 UTC, on 2003-08-21, John C. Welch wrote:
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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
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>> save a script from Script Editor without that damn extension?
The Save Dialog has a "Hide extension" checkbox. Not exactly what you're
asking for, but maybe close enough. Also 'works' for Eudora's Script menu in
that it doesn't show the extension. So no need to piss off Steve Dorner ;)
(With already existing scripts you can hide the extension by doing a Cmd-I on
them, go to "Name 7 Extension" and check "hide extension".)
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> Didn't you know, extensions are THE WAY now. Don't piss off Avie by
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>clinging
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> to ancient matadata. ;)
Heh :)
Webster's definition of "mata": "A benign tumor of a glandlike structure;
morbid enlargement of a gland."
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Both methods have their disadvantage. Blind reliance on name extensions
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causes problems, because changing a part of a file name should NOT change
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how the OS treats the file.
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*however*, if the file shows up with no information whatsoever, and you find
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out it's a jpeg, then tacking a .jpeg on the end is simpler much than
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editing file types and creator codes.
I think that's just a matter of there not being an elegant interface
available. Besides, adding ".jpeg" to a file's name still leaves you with
having to define which app it is to be opened in by default. For that, you
still have to do a Cmd-I on it, find where you left your mouse the last time
you used it, click the correct triangle and then select which app you want to
open the file in by default. And when you say "Change all...", half the time
it works as if you said "Change some..."
[...]
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As well, the OS really didn't DO much with the metadata other than using it
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for opening files, setting icons, and some fairly obscure search tricks. In
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this respect, OS X is actually *better* because depending on the file, you
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can DO MORE with it...like not having to launch Quicktime Player just to
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preview a movie.
In practice I have found that under OS X double-clicking files to open them
costs too much time, as too often they're opened in the wrong app. I use
"Zingg!" to stay in control when I open a file in the Finder (like I used
FinderPop in Mac OS Dead).
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <
http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
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