Re: New Tiger dictionary format example posted
Re: New Tiger dictionary format example posted
- Subject: Re: New Tiger dictionary format example posted
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 10:20:17 -0500
On 5/4/05 09:46, "has" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> It has become redundant, or perhaps I should say unnecessary.
>
> Not true. While it's not necessary to show this information for Cocoa apps
> (though its presence is certainly helpful), it _is_ essential to show it for
> Carbon apps as those depend on the developer to implement and document the
> supported reference forms for each element. A good example is iTunes, which
> has lousy accessor support that's impossible to infer from other dictionary
> information; the only way to know which forms are supported and which aren't
> is from the element accessor listings in its dictionary.
>
> I can understand why the AppleScript engineers might want to omit superfluous
> information to make application dictionaries smaller and simpler to read, but
> omitting this particular information is inconvenient at least and downright
> wrong at worst. Paradoxically, subclasses still insist on listing elements
> already inherited from parent classes, which is completely redundant duplicate
> information. Automatically stripping that junk would significantly shorten
> dictionaries (e.g. see my HTMLDictionary app which already does this).
>
> I recommend the OP file a formal bug report on Tiger's Script Editor
> explaining the problem (feel free to cut-n-paste the above if it helps), and
> go grab a copy of Smile or HTMLDictionary for viewing the missing info
> meantime.
As odd as this may sound, I completely agree with has here, and if the OP
doesn't have a dev account, let me know and I'll file the bug
--
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doesn't know about it until the next morning?
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