Re: Aliases in AppleScripts
Re: Aliases in AppleScripts
- Subject: Re: Aliases in AppleScripts
- From: Gmeiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 16:54:14 +0200
I'd love to see some AS documentation broken down a little more into
real world examples or "situational" topics. The AS documentation
seems to have everything in it, but at times its so brief its like it
assumes you have AS background that I just don't have. Something like
a series of tutorials or explanations based on topics like:
Working With Paths
Manually Referencing a file in a specific folder
Tracking a file that may move
working with special folders (home, library, desktop, etc...)
data types used in working with files & paths
Working with Collections of Files
Working with text
Converting data types into text
Converting text strings into other data types
Finding and replacing text in strings
reading from text files
writing to text files
formatting rtf text
Something that lets me look up documentation by finding something
close to what I'm trying to do, at the moment. Even if it was just a
supplementary "alternate index" with links to current references in
the language guide. At least it would tell me what is involved in the
process and where to find the documentation. Its taken me so long to
get this far because I had nothing clear & concise to tell me that I
had the various data types to consider & coercion issues to think
about. I just figured "I'm typing in the path, why wont AS read it?"
Of course its entirely possible that the AS documentation is just fine
& I'm just dumb. One never knows for sure... :-)
- Cliff
Thank you Cliff Pruitt, I am in the same situation :
Of course its entirely possible that the AS documentation is just fine
& I'm just dumb. One never knows for sure... :-)
and I also would appreciate and
I'd love to see some AS documentation broken down a little more into
real world examples or "situational" topics.
Jobst
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