Re: Palm Desktop 4.1 (creating a memo)
Re: Palm Desktop 4.1 (creating a memo)
- Subject: Re: Palm Desktop 4.1 (creating a memo)
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 09:41:54 -0700
On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 05:08 US/Pacific, Brennan wrote:
Right, so this is why 'contents' was a poor choice! Too bad you
couldn't run a beta past us folks that will actually be using this. :(
As always, please let Palm know that Mac OS and AppleScript support are
important to you so Palm knows where to apply their efforts. (Yes, I
work at Palm, but I don't speak for the company, so I refer to it in
the third person. ;)
I did test the scripting support as best I could, with the help of some
others who also wrote example and test scripts, but we didn't hit this
case. Luckily, although it's a little confusing, it's not ultimately
harmful.
Another problem I'm seeing is that script editor doesn't quit properly
after I've been targeting Palm Desktop. I have to force quit, but then
if I try to relaunch it, I'm told that it is 'in use'. (OS 9.1).
I can't imagine how this could be a problem with Palm Desktop
specifically.
Also, if you tell Palm Desktop to activate when it's not running, and
it launches, it doesn't come to the foreground until after it has
finished launching. Is this correct/desirable? Other apps don't behave
this way.
I don't think this is specific to Palm Desktop, although it does have a
bit of work to do before it's ready to handle the activate event. At
least on Mac OS X, if I 'tell app "foo" to activate' several apps I
tried finished starting up before coming to the front.
I thought using the generic 'contents' property would simplify
things, but it seems that this creates a potentially confusing
experience, since it's different from other properties.
Er... any chance of changing the terminology again?
Probably not soon enough to stop irritating you :) I'm certainly
thinking it should probably be changed, but as it happens I am no
longer officially working on Palm Desktop. It is now owned by
PalmSource, and I work for Palm, Inc. So there's no guarantee I'll have
any influence on what happens.
Please let PalmSource know that Mac OS and AppleScript support are
important to you, to help focus their efforts.
Now, horror of horrors the original script is not working at all:
...
When I put in a complete path to the package file, it compiles and
works
fine. (Just to restate, this is under OS 9.1 with Applescript 1.8.3)
It may be that you have an old copy of Palm Desktop around and Script
Editor found it. Although, 'memo' was supported in 4.0, so I really
don't know what happened to you. AppleScript is funny that way.
--
Chris Page - Software Wrangler - Palm, Inc.
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