Re: How to make scripts reference multiple revs of an app
Re: How to make scripts reference multiple revs of an app
- Subject: Re: How to make scripts reference multiple revs of an app
- From: Michael Terry <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 01:38:46 -0800
On Mar 2, 2004, at 11:31 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
If the app terminology is just aeut stuff, then you can confuse the
matter with:
set appName to "Smile"
tell app named appName
or what-have-you, but that won't work for me this time.
Then there's just putting in the raw codes, but who wants to do that?
So what have you got?
But for the past several years you've been able to compile using
using terms from application "Each App"
end
and don't need the raw codes. It just works as long as you compile on a
computer (OS 9.0 or later) with all the right apps, and use a variable
for
the app name as Richard23 has above. You can even use it on older OS's
and
it works.
Is there something I'm missing here?
Well, nothing major, just that I like to release scripts that are
easily editable. As far as I know, you don't have much leeway when
application specific terminology is involved. You've got to make
explicitly clear what application your using terms from so a script can
find the terminology when compiling. As soon as someone opens my script
on their machine to fix some dumb little assumption or just to fool
around, AS starts throwing up "Where's that app at?" dialogs. At least,
that's how I thought it worked. Are you saying that you can compile
with a terms block on one machine, and the script will contain the
necessary resources to be recompiled elsewhere even if that application
is no longer present?
Mike
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