Re: Script Editor hangs on "Open Dictionary"
Re: Script Editor hangs on "Open Dictionary"
- Subject: Re: Script Editor hangs on "Open Dictionary"
- From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 09:18:25 +0100
This from Bill Briggs - dated 15/5/05 12.10 am:
> At 2:20 PM -0700 5/14/05, Andrew Oliver wrote:
>> On 5/14/05 2:09 PM, "Rob Lewis" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Whenever I select the command "Open Dictionary" in Script Editor 2.0,
>>> the program hangs with a spinning beach ball and I have to force quit
>>> it. Any clue what this is about?
>>
>> How long have you waited?
>>
>> IMHO the 'Open Dictionary' is so FUBAR'd, it's not funny. It can
>> take an age to find all the applications on your machine. I'd much
>> rather they gave you a regular Open File dialog and let you navigate
>> to the app you wanted. It's not like there's any advantage to the
>> current implementation - it still shows every app whether or not
>> that app has a dictionary, which would be about the only advantage I
>> can think of.
>
> I also think it's FUBAR. I complained to Mark Aldritt about this in
> Script Debugger and he's ditching it in the next release.
But at least in Script Debugger you can use the regular 'Open' command to
get an app's dictionary, avoiding the horror of the spinning beachball.
Shame the vanilla script editor can't do that too.
Nick
pp Mr Tea
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