Re: scripting Word top copy text - should be simple, but ain't
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: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:38:58 -0700
On Apr 27, 2006, at 11:51 AM, 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?
That would be the Scripting Interface Guidelines, currently published
as TN2106 <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2106.html>.
Interestingly enough, they say that "open" should return a specifier
for the just-opened objects (usually documents, but not necessarily),
but Smile is one of the only applications that follows that
particular bit so far.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering
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