Re: world's largest AppleScript dictionary (was Re: Digital Sigs)
Re: world's largest AppleScript dictionary (was Re: Digital Sigs)
- Subject: Re: world's largest AppleScript dictionary (was Re: Digital Sigs)
- From: "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:33:00 +1000
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:04:22 -0700, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>Word is 174 pages (5.5 MB) vs.
>InDesign CS's 254 pages (5.7 MB). I guess Word has to settle for being
>second-largest.
It's not a strictly fair comparison to use those figures. One of the
changes made in InDesign CS was to list all inherited properties in each
class rather than resort to the <inheritance> merry-go-round most people
otherwise face in Script Editor. This obviously makes the dictionary a
lot bigger.
So my comparison of ID with Word, using Script Debugger's "List inherited
elements" preference turned on for the latter, resulted in a much slimmer
margin of 228 to 219. Cut out a couple of scriptable plug-ins I have
installed, and it probably narrows the margin by another page or so
(although the ability to use scriptable plug-ins, especially ones that
fully integrate into the object model, widens the margin of usefulness
enormously).
And of the course the margin in terms of documentation remains more than
somewhat lop-sided. Given the oddness of some of Word's implementation,
that's arguably a bigger black mark than normal.
But it would be very wrong to confuse functionality with size...
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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
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