Re: Entourage's "path to me" in Tiger
Re: Entourage's "path to me" in Tiger
- Subject: Re: Entourage's "path to me" in Tiger
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 09:26:03 -0700
- Thread-topic: Entourage's "path to me" in Tiger
On 5/29/05 7:22 AM, "Gnarlodious" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Not true here. "path to me" returns the path to the script in ALL
> application script menus EXCEPT for Entourage. This has been verified by
> another Tiger user who tested it.
I don't know about "all other applications", but the reason why it doesn't
work in Entourage's script menu is that Entourage 2004 has not implemented
the Panther (yes, Panther) APIs for script menus. The reason for that is
that Entourage 2004 is advertised as working also in Jaguar (remember
Jaguar?) 10.2.8, and implementing the Panther APIs would have made the
script menu non-functional (completely) for Jaguar. I was quite upset myself
to discover this at the time 2004 was released, but it's understandable.
Apple had only just changed script menu behavior related to the new
data-fork scripts made by Script Editor in Jaguar, and now changed them
again for Panther. The Panther release was so close to the release of Office
2004 that MS say they did not have time (nor maybe the inclination) to
implement and test "branching code" that would work differently in Jaguar
and Panther. That's why changes to script properties made when running data
fork scripts (i.e. as made by Script Editor 2.x and Smile later than 2.5.9)
in Entourage script menu are not retained. (They are if you are running a
resource-fork script.) Hopefully, this will be fixed in a later update
release of Entourage, and certainly in the next major release. Perhaps they
might even be able to get this 'path to me' working as you would like as
well.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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