Re: "save as" question
Re: "save as" question
- Subject: Re: "save as" question
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:45:42 -0800
On Nov 20, 2003, at 2:30 PM, roy whelden wrote:
Can someone explain to me in a few short sentences what Script
Editor's "save as application bundle" means?
It's a new flavor of AppleScript application that uses the standard
"bundle" format, which most Mac OS X applications use. The resulting
application "file" is really a folder with a well-defined internal
layout [1]. At the moment, we're not exploiting this for very much
[2], but in the future, it will allow a lot more flexibility in an
applet. The major gotcha for them is that they only work on Panther
(10.3) and later.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
[1] Details of the bundle format are covered in the Application
Packaging chapter of the Mac OS X System Overview -- see
<
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/
SystemOverview/AppPackaging/index.html>
[2] You can, however, exploit it yourself in a couple of interesting
ways. First, using "path to" and a bit of relative path jiggling will
get you the internal Resources folder, in which you may store whatever
you like. Also, a fairly obscure feature of Panther is that if you put
a scripting addition inside :Contents:Resources:ScriptingAdditions:, it
will be loaded for that applet, so you don't have to muck around with
telling people to install it manually. Of course, that only works if
they're running Panther.
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