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: Ben Waldie <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:17:30 -0400
On Sep 14, 2004, at 7:33 PM, Shane Stanley wrote:
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...
One other thing I forgot to mention, which isn't really related to this
thread other than the fact that it deals with Office 2004 is that
AppleScript recordability doesn't appear to work in Office 2004. I
don't know if it's just broken, or if it has been removed altogether.
-Ben
Benjamin S. Waldie
President & CEO
Automated Workflows, LLC
610.935.0652
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