Re: Launching for Dictionaries
Re: Launching for Dictionaries
- Subject: Re: Launching for Dictionaries
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:45:38 -0800
At 7:11 PM -0500 2/24/03, John C. Welch wrote:
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Oh, another thing...it would be nice to be able to open the bloody
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dictionary without having to fire up the application first.
I suspect this is also a Cocoa thing. The scsz resource used to specify whether an application had to launch to fetch its dictionary from plug-ins. This has presumably moved to the application's plist, and I'll bet Cocoa's defaults to this value.
Some applications need this feature. InDesign, for example, is built from a set of plug-ins. Any plug-in can add scripting, so InDesign needs to launch and load the plug-ins before it can provide a complete dictionary.
Cocoa obviously believes it needs to do this too. Presumably if an application didn't need to do this, it could change that plist value.
Regardless, Cocoa apps should be able to adjust this as needed.
Jon
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