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Re: what is Image Capture Scripting?
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Re: what is Image Capture Scripting?


  • Subject: Re: what is Image Capture Scripting?
  • From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 18:19:22 -0700

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:25:48 -0400, Bill Cheeseman
<email@hidden> said:
>on 2005-09-02 9:35 AM, Matt Neuburg at email@hidden wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:19:03 +1000, Shane Stanley
>> <email@hidden> said:
>>> On 2/9/05 10:05 AM, "Matt Neuburg" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is something in /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions called Image
>>>> Capture Scripting. But it isn't scriptable! So what is it?
>>>
>>> It used to be -- it's been usurped by Image Events.
>>
>> Okay, but usurped in what sense? I can't script Image Capture Scripting, so
>> why is it still there at all?

Indeed, Shane's answer is clearly wrong. Image Events and Image Capture have
nothing to do with each other. Shane may have meant it's been usurped by
Image Capture (the application), as Bill goes on to suggest.

>It seems to me that I first noticed something like this back in Mac OS X
>10.3. My assumption then (or whenever) was that Image Capture Scripting (or
>was there another name for it then?) was the engine behind the Image Capture
>(or was it Grab?) application in your /Applications folder. Why it's in an
>unusable scripting addition instead of in the application itself is beyond
>me. I don't see any scripting information in the Image Capture application
>package or the Image Capture Scripting bundle. But I note that the
>NSAppleScriptEnabled key is turned on in the latter.

But I can't script *either* of them. Neither Image Capture nor Image Capture
Scripting is scriptable. m.

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