Re: applescript url
Re: applescript url
- Subject: Re: applescript url
- From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 02:00:52 -0400
On or about 6/30/03 1:26 AM, Michael Terry wrote:
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Sure, but this is built-in. Soon anyone will be able to click on one of
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these links and have the script pop up in Script Editor. And if, as Jon
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says, the commercial editors get on board, then scripts will even be able to
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pop into the editor of your choice. I love it.
Well, love is a many splendored thing, but this thing that you love is not
new. You could have been loving it for years already -- as many likely
have.
AppleScript is "built in" and that is all you need. Apple has only taken
the one additional step of creating some internal handler -- rather than you
simply writing your own -- to do something with some text.
By rolling your own, you can send the content, the commands, the parameters
anywhere you want: any application, any editor, whatever. For pure display
(as in this case) or for further processing.
There is no need for "commercial editors" to get on board...anything that is
scriptable can be targeted already...Script Editor, Smile, BBEdit,
FileMaker, Internet Explorer, whatever. Any scriptable application is
already, by nature, "on board".
This does not take any "industry reaction", any changing of any code, any
new "applescript://" protocol (although everyone using the same is fine by
me...that's no big point either way.)
If you simply read this list's archives, you will find the full details on
how to send anything you want, anywhere you want, with any pseudo-protocol
you want to create -- or go ahead and use "applescript://" if you wish.
I am not attempting to antagonize (by any means) or even to diminish the
"neatness" of it all. But, to even begin to pretend that it is "new" is
patently (and verifiably) false (not by you, I mean by Apple.)
--
Gary
MacOS 9.1 / "9 is Fine"
OMM: osa:AS 183 / osa:JS 103 / FM 55 / BB 612 / Smile 188
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