Re: how can script bundles store extra stuff?
Re: how can script bundles store extra stuff?
- Subject: Re: how can script bundles store extra stuff?
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:49:21 +0100
Matt Neuburg wrote:
> So the situation is still a mess: the OSA API still doesn't provide client
> applications with all the tools needed to do this stuff properly, and user
> scripts still can't rely on 'path to me' and 'path to current application' to
> return sensible results in every application
Right - it's the inconsistency that's the maddening part.
Absolutely. There's some fine design in OSA, but this is one of the areas where I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and clatter its designers with a big ol' clue stick. The filesystem is simply an extension of the program's namespace, and ought to be treated as such. Unix languages understand this and stuff like relative module imports are second-nature to them, which is why it's even more annoying trying to OSA-ify them as it deprives you of features you're used to having.
BTW, if all else fails, consider putting auxiliary files in a fixed location like Application Support which AS can reliably get a path to in any situation.
has
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