understanding dictionaries
understanding dictionaries
- Subject: understanding dictionaries
- From: "Monee C. Kidd" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 00:25:11 -0400
OK, maybe I'm just not getting this language. I'm reading through the
Language Guide and I'm understanding the syntax of how the various
examples are put together. But what I'm still missing is how to make
this knowledge more general. When I look in the dictionaries for
various applications, I have no idea how to construct a sentence that
will do what I want it to do. For example, right now, I want to write
a script that will open the Displays panel in System Preferences and
reset the monitor brightness to full. I wrote a "script" in what I
thought was English language syntax, but Applescript recognizes none
of it.
So I have two questions. First, more specifically, how do I write
this specific script for System Preferences? And secondly, can
someone point me to some where I can learn to understand the way the
dictionaries are set up, so when I read something like:
Class pane: a preference pane
Plural form:
panes
Properties:
<Inheritance> item [r/o] -- All of the properties of the superclass.
name Unicode text [r/o] -- locale independent name of the
preference pane; can refer to a pane using the expression: pane
"<name>"
localized name Unicode text [r/o] -- localized name of the
preference pane
in the dictionary, I know what the heck that means and how I'm
supposed to use it? The little blurb about dictionaries in the
language guide doesn't explain it at all.
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