Re: Dictionaries was Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
Re: Dictionaries was Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
- Subject: Re: Dictionaries was Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:56:00 -0800
At 12:12 AM +0000 2/26/03, John Delacour wrote:
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At 3:53 pm -0800 25/2/03, Jon Pugh wrote:
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>Frankly, the limitations of the format DO stop developers from producing a dictionary such as you describe. That's why you haven't seen a good one.
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Yes, I understand that, but what I meant was that there's nothing to stop people producing a useful dictionary OUTSIDE the limitations of the Apple template as an html doc or a text doc. If they can write the manual and the help stuff, they can do this too.
No doubt, and I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who disagrees.
However, I didn't even have anything to do with InDesign's documentation (which is pretty complete; Shane's read it and look how much he knows), much as I suspect cricket doesn't have anything directly to do with Mail's documentation, aside from implementing things that it describes.
In that regard, complaining doesn't really do much good, unless you can get cricket to start a personal mission to fix everything at Apple.
And I would like to say one thing about Cocoa and AppleScript. When we were developing AppleScript, we wanted to get MacApp to support it. This would have made it easier for developers since the framework would provide a lot of functionality for you. Of course, this was during the Bedrock fiasco, wherein Symantec and Apple were going to create a new cross platform development framework as well as tools to build it. It never happened, but it prevented any work from happening in MacApp until much too late. By the time it supported scripting, no one was really using it any more.
So now, seeing Cocoa support AppleScript makes me happy. Many new apps will benefit from Cocoa's scripting support, even if it's still new and missing some required features like the selection and dictionary control. When these are added to Cocoa, all apps will benefit. That's a very good thing, regardless of which system version it ships in.
So when cricket says he'll get the selection scriptable, that means he'll do it in all the apps at once. I find it hard to argue with service like that.
Jon
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's *very* good, but when it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
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