Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
- Subject: Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:33:55 -0400
At 3:53 PM -0800 25/02/03, Jon Pugh wrote:
At 11:36 PM +0000 2/25/03, John Delacour wrote:
There is nohing to stop developers producing such a dictionary for
their application, and cricket's time would be far better spent in
my opinion producing such a work than being right all the time on
this list.
John, you're just going to get John Baxter going again about the
limitations of the dictionary format.
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.
In theory, AppleScript 2 will use an XML format for the dictionary
and that will *finally* allow people to produce decent dictionaries.
Until then, you have to suffer like the rest of us.
If there were no other options for documentation, that might be
arguable. A PDF with the things JD is talking about would do the job
quite nicely. All the "dictionary" really has to do is validate the
script syntax. The meat of the documentation can go elsewhere.
There's no reason a developer couldn't just document the
implementation in some text editor and provide examples, etc., in
accompanying documentation in a universally readable format (plain
text, PDF). Adobe FrameMaker has a 144 page PDF on its AppleScript
implementation. It's still lacking in many ways, partly owing to the
complexity of FrameMaker itself and the size of the dictionary, but
it's a huge step in the right direction.
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