Re: Script Editor hangs on "Open Dictionary"
Re: Script Editor hangs on "Open Dictionary"
- Subject: Re: Script Editor hangs on "Open Dictionary"
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 03:43:46 +0100
Andrew Oliver wrote on Sat, 14 May 2005 14:20:10 -0700:
>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.
It takes an age on my G3 PowerBook with Jaguar, but not long at all on my
new G5 with Tiger. (Well, not long if you allow for the fact that OS X
has to be woken from a doze if you've taken your hands off the mouse or
the keyboard for more than a few seconds.) Script Editor's "Open
Dictionary..." dialog only shows scriptable items.
But while Tigerising my dictionary-opening scripts, I've noticed issues
with some scriptable applications:
1) Neither Script Editor nor Smile (2.5.6) will open the dictionary for
Image Capture Scripting.app in the ScriptingAdditions folder. Script
Editor shows it as being scriptable but does nothing when asked to open
its dictionary. Smile doesn't list it as scriptable and throws an error
when prevailed upon to open its dictionary. The same goes for syncuid.app
in the CoreServices folder.
2) Conversely, none of the "StuffIt Standard 8.0" apps (DropStuff,
Expander, etc.) are shown as being scriptable by SE (or by my script),
but are recognised as such by Smile. SE can, however, open the
dictionaries using the "Browse..." method. My script, and presumably SE
too, relies on the 'has scripting terminology' of the files. Smile
obviously does something cleverer.
3) Whichever editor I use, opening the dictionaries of many applications
also launches the applications themselves. This was also true for a few
apps in Jaguar, but it seems to have got worse with Tiger. It can
obviously be useful at times, but seems a bit clumsy.
NG
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