how can an application's AS dictionary be wrong ?
how can an application's AS dictionary be wrong ?
- Subject: how can an application's AS dictionary be wrong ?
- From: Steven Majewski <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 14:21:49 -0400
I've again run into a problem where the information shown in
Script Editor's Open Dictionary for an application is clearly in error.
In this specific case, things that are listed as optional seem to
actually
be required ( not giving a value always generates an error ) and there
seems
to be some other syntax that is not listed but seems to be accepted.
( in one example, a keyword 'default' seems to work where it says
there
should be a pathname string -- unless applescript was automagically
stringifying the unquoted word 'default' and coercing it into a
pathname string. )
Where does the displayed dictionary come from ?
Is it a human readable form of the actual dictionary contents ?
Or is it generated from comments in the dictionary ?
Are there alternative source of the same information ?
I expect that it's a problem that falls thru the cracks between the
static dictionary data structs and what is procedurally done with that
data, but I'ld really like to understand in what sense the application's
dictionary can be "wrong" !
-- Steve Majewski
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