Re: 'inconsistency' [was: Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure]
Re: 'inconsistency' [was: Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure]
- Subject: Re: 'inconsistency' [was: Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure]
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:21:59 -0400
- Thread-topic: 'inconsistency' [was: Re: AppleScript a miserable and utter failure]
on 2005-09-29 9:50 AM, Shane Stanley at email@hidden wrote:
> And I'll do a little repetition too: if they'd all follow the guidelines, it
> would still make things easier. I don't want to have six copies of
> documentation sitting here telling me what form of file reference six apps
> want for the open event; I want them all to accept what the guidelines say
> they should.
Unfortunately, the guidelines offer a lot of options to the developer of a
scriptable application. The Scripting Interface Guidelines (SIG), Technical
Note TN2106 is quite clear in its invitation to developers to customize the
Standard Suite to fit the actual functionality of a particular application.
Applications apply to differing subject matter areas, and these differences
often dictate differences in functionality. We certainly don't want the
dictionaries to promise one thing while the application delivers another.
So, there will always be a role for AppleScript documentation explaining the
ways in which an application's terminology differs from the norm (whatever
that is).
Fortunately, sdef files allow developers to put much more extensive custom
documentation into the expected location -- the dictionary. And, since sdef
files are xml, sooner or later some ambitious and energetic soul is bound to
write an application that will extract and compare application
dictionaries....
--
Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA
http://www.quecheesoftware.com
PreFab Software - http://www.prefab.com/scripting.html
The AppleScript Sourcebook - http://www.AppleScriptSourcebook.com
Vermont Recipes - http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/VermontRecipes
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