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Re: [Newbie] What's wrong with my code ?
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Re: [Newbie] What's wrong with my code ?


  • Subject: Re: [Newbie] What's wrong with my code ?
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:40:57 -0500

Raw AppleScript doesn't know how to make a new menu item.  Menu items are, in general, far too low-level a concept for AS, although there may well be some osax (AppleScript extension) or scriptable application which lets you do low-level GUI stuff from AS like that. 

AS is not, in general, an application-development language; rather, it's an application-automation language.  It's best at letting you "remote control" other application.  You can certainly write standalone apps in AppleScript, but you do so at a higher level than what you're doing here, with commensurately less control over find details like menus and their items.

What exactly are you trying to do?

On 12/27/05, Eric Morand <email@hidden> wrote:

Hi list !

After a lot of years spent with Objective-C, I'm back to
Applescript...and I've to confess that it is NOT that easy to return !!!

In fact, I'm stuck with newbies problems (yes that's a shame). In
particular, here is a snipet of code that doesn't work :


        set aMenuItem to (make new menu item)

        set (title of aMenuItem) to "Test"

        display dialog (title of aMenuItem)



Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this code ? I just can't see
where I made a mistake.


Thanks by advance,


Eric.
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