Re: Filter reference form question
Re: Filter reference form question
- Subject: Re: Filter reference form question
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:34:35 -0800
On Dec 18, 2003, at 2:07 AM, Brennan wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:19:34 -0800, Christopher Nebel
<email@hidden> wrote:
every foo whose width is less than its length
[N]o application I've checked handles this correctly: the Finder
simply errors, and Cocoa applications (I tried TextEdit and Mail)
return all elements or none, as if the test were always true or
always false. ... Strictly speaking, this is a bug in the
application, though arguably the system should provide more help than
it does. I suggest you file a bug against any application that
doesn't handle this correctly.
You mention three Apple applications. I am hitting this issue hard in
a fourth: QuickTime Player. Are these issues already logged as bugs in
all these apps? I can file bug reports if it will help, but it sounds
like I will have to file a *lot* of bug reports (one for each
scriptable Apple app??? There are dozens!) if I want some kind of
consistent behavior from this more-or-less core feature. <dismay/>
I've now filed bugs against Finder, QuickTime Player, and Cocoa
Scripting (which covers TextEdit, Mail, Address Book, iChat, Script
Editor 2, and probably several others that I'm forgetting at the
moment). The fact that the Finder gets it wrong suggests that
PowerPlant itself does, which means lots of third-party applications
are also broken. (On the other hand, they can all be fixed by fixing
PowerPlant.)
The thought of approaching third party developers with this issue is
also slightly daunting.
Maybe so, but the less developers hear from their users about a
feature, the less attention it gets. The number one reason I hear from
developers about why they don't have scripting (or why they don't fix
their bugs) is that none of their users ask about it.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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