AS, wIP and 10.4.3: nothing's changed...
AS, wIP and 10.4.3: nothing's changed...
- Subject: AS, wIP and 10.4.3: nothing's changed...
- From: Eugenio MORASSI <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:33:47 +0100
First of all you'll excuse my poor English, I'll try to make me
understand :)
As usual from 10.4 till today's 10.4.3 update, Apple was (it seems)
not able to solve the problem I've already described here:
I create 5 folders ("a","b","c","d","e") every of which inside the
first one and each other following in alphabetical order:
a
|
+- b
|
+- c
|
+- d
|
+- e
and I disposed their windows by hand in this way (one in the middle
of the Desktop and others on his corners):
_________________________________________________________
/ \
+----------------------------------------------------------+
| | | |
| c | | d |
| | | |
|-------+ +-------+ +-------+
| | | |
| | a | |
| | | |
|-------+ +-------+ +-------+
| | | |
| b | | e |
| | | |
+----------------------------------------------------------+
Launch Script Editor and choose Record a script.
While recording I disposed their windows as follows (in cascade):
__________________________________________________________
/ \
+-------+--------------------------------------------------+
|a | |
| +-------+ |
| |b | |
+-| +-------+ |
| | |c | |
| +-| +-------+ |
| | |d | |
| +-| +-------+ |
| | |e | |
| +-| | |
| | | |
+-------+-------+------------------------------------------+
and this was code recorded by Script Editor:
tell application "Finder"
activate
select window of desktop
select window of desktop
make new Finder window to folder "a" of folder "Desktop" of folder
"mora" of folder "Users" of startup disk
select Finder window 1
set position of Finder window 1 to {2, 49}
select Finder window 1
select Finder window 1
make new Finder window to folder "b" of folder "a" of folder
"Desktop" of folder "mora" of folder "Users" of startup disk
select Finder window 1
set position of Finder window 1 to {36, 72}
select Finder window 1
select Finder window 1
make new Finder window to folder "c" of folder "b" of folder "a" of
folder "Desktop" of folder "mora" of folder "Users" of startup disk
select Finder window 1
set position of Finder window 1 to {71, 93}
select Finder window 1
select Finder window 1
make new Finder window to folder "d" of folder "c" of folder "b" of
folder "a" of folder "Desktop" of folder "mora" of folder "Users" of
startup disk
select Finder window 1
set position of Finder window 1 to {105, 116}
select Finder window 1
select Finder window 1
make new Finder window to folder "e" of folder "d" of folder "c" of
folder "b" of folder "a" of folder "Desktop" of folder "mora" of
folder "Users" of startup disk
select Finder window 1
set position of Finder window 1 to {139, 137}
close Finder window 1
close Finder window 1
close Finder window 1
close Finder window 1
close Finder window 1
close Finder window 1
close Finder window 1
close Finder window 1
close Finder window 1
close Finder window 1
end tell
Windows are now disposed in cascade, and opening all of them result
in an expected way.
I go back to recorded script, and changed these values:
{2, 49} to {5, 50}
{36, 72} to {15, 60}
{71, 93} to {25, 70}
{105, 116} to {35, 80}
{139, 137} to {45, 90}
I save and Run the script, after giving folder windows their original
position (one in the middle of the Desktop and others on his corners).
The script runs and exits normally and all seems working well.
But if I open these folders now, they are one in the middle of the
Desktop and others on his corners and NOT in cascade as expected.
With 10.4.3 nothing is changed about this bug.
On 10.3.x (x > 2) wIP ( http://www.roam.it/soft/wip/wip.html ) was a
good app, now remains an useless piece of recursive code.
A (compact) nothing to show about recursion and usefulness of AS to
our members...
E u g e n i o M O R A S S I
--
president & cofounder
R o a m. P o s s i b l e K n o w l e d g e
Mac Users for Free Software and Documentation
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