Re: New iTunes Track
Re: New iTunes Track
- Subject: Re: New iTunes Track
- From: Matthew Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:09:45 +1100
on 25/02/2004 14:07, Andrew Oliver at email@hidden wrote:
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On 2/24/04 6:10 PM, "Matthew Smith" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> "... you would need iTunes to be able to notify you when there is a change,
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> which it can't do. "
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Change that to "which it doesn't do", not "can't do"
I am sorry. You and I must see things differently. CAN the current version
of iTunes do it? It can't without programming changes. To me, can't and
doesn't are the same things as I cannot change the code of iTunes in order
to provide that functionality.
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> "Unfortunately that's not how AppleScript was designed to work."
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Wrong again.
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There's absolutely no reason why an application can't call a script on
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specific events. In fact, the original AppleScript specification classified
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AppleScript support at various levels ranging from 'basic' (app responds to
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events sent via AppleScript), 'recordable' (speaks for itself) and
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'attachable' - I may have the specific names wrong, but the last option
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means the application supports invoking scripts within the application
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itself.
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The problem you describe is due to the APPLICATION developer not adding the
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feature, not an inherent limitation of AppleScript itself.
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There are applications out there that support attachable scripts. iTunes
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just isn't one of them.
What you are saying is that the applications must be written so that
AppleScript can do it. I agree. What I am saying is that AppleScript was not
designed to do it when an application is not written for it.
--
Matthew Smith
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