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Re: Script Editor in Tiger: where's the Find gone?
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Re: Script Editor in Tiger: where's the Find gone?


  • Subject: Re: Script Editor in Tiger: where's the Find gone?
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 20:10:19 +0100

Daniel Jalkut wrote:

>On a related subject, can I use SpotLight to search inside scripts? Or is it going to need some kind of addition (importer thingy) before we can search scripts?

Yep, you would need a custom importer to search .scpt files. But there's a problem. To provide searchable data, the importer would need to decompile each script back to source code. Decompiling a compiled AppleScript means obtaining the terminology for every application that script talks to. But some applications have to be launched and running before their terminology can be retrieved (e.g. Address Book, QXP). So guess what'd happen each time Spotlight tries to index a .scpt file that uses one of those apps?

IOW, I'm pretty sure that allowing Spotlight to search compiled AppleScripts is impractical, as most users would not be happy about various applications mysteriously sproinging to life on their desktops at random intervals. :(

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