Re: [SE2.0 beta] bugs and feature requests
Re: [SE2.0 beta] bugs and feature requests
- Subject: Re: [SE2.0 beta] bugs and feature requests
- From: Steve Roy <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:51:33 -0500
email@hidden (Tim Bumgarner) wrote:
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> - When saving a script, its window size/position is not saved.
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This is a problem in that a compiled script (.scpt) is saved as
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data-fork only and we aren't allowed to save anything in the resource
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fork (where window positions are normally saved).
This isn't a problem at all for me. As long as we can set the default size of
the window, I'm happy.
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> - In the "Open Dictionary" window, how about allowing the user to type
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> the
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> first few letters of the app he's searching for? I think that would be
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> a nice
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> improvement.
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This is an irritant of mine as well, and hopefully will be fixed soon.
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The actual implementation of that dialog is using the data browser from
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Carbon and apparently the fix needs to come from there (I could be
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wrong about this but that's what I understand).
It's good to hear you want it fixed too. I hope the fix will make it into the
final release, whenever it's scheduled to happen.
I have another comment regarding this dialog. It takes really too long to come
up. Considering that we have to use it basically every time we write a new
script (unless we know the exact name of the target app), I think that something
should be done to improve the user experience. I know I despise the wait. One
thing that could help is to populate this dialog interactively instead of
waiting until all scriptable apps were found. Then if I don't feel like waiting
I can at least hit the Browse button and do my thing.
To circumvent the slowness of this dialog, I would also love to have a way to
select a running application. Some other scripting tools show them in a submenu,
that's fine. A submenu in the contextual menu would be nice too. :)
I have to say I just love having smoothed fonts in Script Editor. It's really
nice. :)
About setting the size of the window. I also like to set the horizontal split to
be completely closed (down). I did this by double-clicking the separator and
picking Save as Default in the Window menu. However, after having done this,
when you create a new window and you play with the resize box (resizing the
window bigger and larger over and over), you'll see that the separator slowly
goes up.
Another annoying bug I found is that the script scrolls to the left by a few
pixels and I constantly have to scroll it back to it's zero position. I'm sure
this has been noticed before.
Finally, what kind of plugin can it use, as the tab in the preferences show?
It'd be nice to be able to write such plugins in AppleScript.
Steve
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Steve Roy <email@hidden>
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