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Re: Script Editor hangs on "Open Dictionary"
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Re: Script Editor hangs on "Open Dictionary"


  • Subject: Re: Script Editor hangs on "Open Dictionary"
  • From: David Marshall <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 19:59:41 -0400

On May 15, 2005, Michelle Steiner wrote:

On May 15, 2005, at 1:18 AM, Mr Tea wrote:

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.

In vanilla Applescript, you can open the library (command-shift-L), click the plus sign, and add the application to the library panel. You can then open the app from there.


Ever since Script Editor got the library function, I have never used the Open command to access a dictionary.

-- Michelle

Thanks for pointing out that can't-see-it-even-though-it's-staring-me-in-the-face feature. :-)


In MY Script Editor's Open Dictionary dialog, additionally, there's a Browse button, which brings up a standard OS X Open File dialog; an extra click, to be sure, but once you've used it to open the dictionary of an app that lives in /Applications, that becomes the default starting point, as evidenced by this com.Apple.ScriptEditor2.plist entry:

<key>AppleNavServices:ChooseFile:0:Path</key>
	<string>file://localhost/Applications/</string>

What I can't figure out is why sometimes the Open Dictionary dialog shows only OS X applications and Additions, and other times shows Classic applications as well; in the latter case, the list is certainly slower to appear in its entirety, but I don't get the spinning beachball. The rest of you folks ever empty caches?

- - - - -

Dave

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