Re: Script Editor hangs on "Open Dictionary"
Re: Script Editor hangs on "Open Dictionary"
- Subject: Re: Script Editor hangs on "Open Dictionary"
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 03:58:40 -0400
Some of the apps that _do_ show a dictionary from Open Dictionary will no
longer open their dictionary from the Library books icon.
While poking around for the problem, I did discover by random accident
(command-click on the dictionary browser window's title) that in the
invisible 'tmp' folder at my disk's root, there is an entry for each of the
currently open dictionaries from SE, with the extension .asdictionary
TIP:
I copied all of those files from the invisible "StartupDisk:tmp:" directory
to my new 'Terminology' folder and now I have double-clickable dictionaries
that open quickly right into SE's dictionary browser tool.
The Big Folder is not ideal for some but I like it, and mostly what I did
with text copies back in OS9. (BBEdit was always open, so I kept a glossary
window with all the dictionaries in .txt form. Great for rapid searches
across multiple files, and I'll very likely get Smile to do that for me
again so I have the text versions also.)
--
Gary
P.S. Related to specific Dictionaries...
I recently posted Mozilla 1.2 (OS9)'s dictionary, which was the most
extensively scriptable browser available for OS9, and was then shocked to
find that FireFox and other Mozilla's on OSX had no useful scripting
terminology at all...remember Paul B's 'SpyGlass Suite' post?
Since upgrading to X, I eagerly installed Mozilla 1.8, and that application
is now just as scriptable as FireFox: it's not!
And Camino (the only OSX-exclusive Mozilla) has the same lame dictionary as
those two. If they can port the older Mozilla dictionary, then Camino
becomes a fast and extensible X-native RAD environment. Here's hoping.
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