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Re: Picking data from a record
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Re: Picking data from a record


  • Subject: Re: Picking data from a record
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:37:44 +0100

Emmanuel wrote:

 >It may be that some editors implement [un]documented 'run script'
 >commands with different behaviour to the osax version.

You've got that perfectly right, has. As for the good idea, I don't
know in general, but when the application maintains a persistent
context, which is the (unique) case of Smile, that's what the user
expects.

To clarify: Overriding the standard 'run script' event (<<event sysodsct>>) with a non-standard, undocumented behaviour would be a bad idea, because there the user completely expects the standard, documented behaviour. While you personally know what to expect, to the uninitiated (your users) it looks like some bizarre heisenbug. (Not an impression you wish to create, I'm sure.;) Implementing an independent, properly documented, Smile-specific event that executes scripts in a custom context is totally sound, however, and certainly allows some very cool stuff to be done, as Smile shows.


Cheers,

has

p.s. In my copy of Smile (2.6.5), 'run script sourceString' always seems to follow the standard behaviour and I don't see an <<event sysodsct>> handler defined anywhere in its aete, so Joe's script didn't work for me at all there. (Not that I'm complaining, mind, but just thought I should note it.)
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