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Re: scripting Word top copy text - should be simple, but ain't
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Re: scripting Word top copy text - should be simple, but ain't


  • Subject: Re: scripting Word top copy text - should be simple, but ain't
  • From: kai <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:36:42 +0100


On 27 Apr 2006, at 19:51, Paul Berkowitz wrote:

On 4/27/06 11:38 AM, "Emmanuel" <email@hidden> wrote:

At 8:41 AM -0700 4/27/06, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
But it would also be a good thing if the Standard Suite
were to support an optional, non-ignorable Result for 'open'

It would certainly be cool that all applications do like Smile does, that is, having their "open" command return a reference to the newly opened object (or whatever makes sense in the particular context), but I don't think anything prevents a programmer from having his "open" command return whatever he decides.

That's good. I'll file that as a feature-request type bug, then with Word.
;-)



As you know, the Standard Suite is more of a recommendation than anything
else.

I never really know what I know, with regard to AppleScript application
implementation. If there are real rules anywhere, I don't know where to find
them. Inside "Inside Macintosh"? Are they updated for OS X?

There's some interesting stuff in the Standard Commands section of Technical Note TN2106 - Scripting Interface Guidelines (Mar 01, 2004):


http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2106.html#standard- commands

This reference to the open command suggests that it should return the created application object(s):

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open
open file | list of files
-- Returns a specifier to the created application object.

Opens the specified files, and returns the new application objects for them – probably documents. The standard version is designed for opening document files, but applications may apply open to other objects and add additional parameters.

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kai


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