Re: UI Scripting and sub-sub-menus in Photoshop
Re: UI Scripting and sub-sub-menus in Photoshop
- Subject: Re: UI Scripting and sub-sub-menus in Photoshop
- From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:41:43 -0600
On Jan 21, 2004, at 3:34 AM, Martin Orpen wrote:
I believe in the *purity* of the AppleScript. To me, "do shell script"
is an
admission of failure. And "do j*v*script" is so evil that I dare not
speak
its name. I have registered the fact that the Script Editor *will*
compile
this type of statement as a serious bug (RadarProblem666) and hope
that the
AS team will get around to fixing it soon.
Your 3 lines may achieve the result that I want, but they go against
the
*spirit* of AppleScript. Any solution, no matter how convoluted, just
has to
be better if we can make it 100 per cent AS.
I'm with you up to this point...
UI scripting is the icing on the big scrummy cake we call AppleScript.
It
offers many benefits over your cold, utilitarian, non-AS solution. To
name
but a few:
... but this is where you lose me. "do shell script" may be apostasy,
but GUI scripting is heresy!
Michael
--
"And I said on my program, if, if the Americans go in and overthrow
Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the
nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration again."
- Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, on Good Morning America, March 18, 2003
Well, Bill?
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