Re: App scripts in system script menu
Re: App scripts in system script menu
- Subject: Re: App scripts in system script menu
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:32:43 -0800
- Thread-topic: App scripts in system script menu
For goodness sake, you'll only get an "application script menu" on the left
side if the APPLICATION installs one there! A few applications do this. The
system has nothing to do with those - why ever would you expect it to? If
the application's developers have included a script menu, you'll get one.
But what we've been describing - scripts which appear in the system script
menu only when a particular app is in the front, never otherwise, is just as
good from the convenience point of view. The only thing it's not as good as
is speed: scripts run _by_ applications run faster. But with the huge
majority of scripts, that makes no difference - you'll only notice it with
scripts that have to do hundreds or thousands of application events. And
some apps that have script menus also have their own system for creating
keyboard shortcuts for them - the system menu does not.
Otherwise, it's just the same thing.
--
Paul Berkowitz
> From: Jobst Gmeiner <email@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:00:00 +0100
> To: Daniel Jalkut <email@hidden>, AppleScript-Users
> <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: App scripts in system script menu
>
> We are talking about two different things:
> Yoy mean the OSA Script Menu which has to be installed and will appear
> with an icon on the right side of the menu bar.
>
> I am talking about an application-specific applescript menu which will
> appear with an icon on the left side of the menu bar within the menues
> of the application.
>
> Jobst
>
> Am 8. Feb 2006 um 00:48 schrieb Daniel Jalkut:
>
>>
>> On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:30 PM, Jobst Gmeiner wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry for bothering you again, but I tried diligently again to get
>>> applescripts in the menu bar of applications, as I wrote before, with
>>> my Mac G5 with OS X 10.3.9.
>>> When working, there should an Applescript icon visible in the menu
>>> bar and the script should be in that menu, right?
>>>
>>> I checked the final path of the script "ReplaceText.scpt" with an
>>> Applescript applet "Path".
>>>
>>> . . .
>>> Who is going to solve this puzzle?
>>
>> It sounds like you're under the impression that simply putting the
>> Folder in the right place will cause the Script menu to appear. It
>> won't. You have to install the script menu. Look in
>>
>> /Applications/AppleScript/
>>
>> You should see an "Install Script Menu" item.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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