Re: text item delimiters
Re: text item delimiters
- Subject: Re: text item delimiters
- From: Mark Lively <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:39:26 -0500
On 1/19/06, Marc Rubin <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Today "set text item delimiters to tab" works from within "Smile" but
> > not when double clicked. Sometimes "set applescript text item
> > delimiters to tab" has worked but I don't remember when.
>
> > What are the rules for using these lines?
>
> haven't tested this today, but i believe 'text item delimiters' works
> unless it's in an application tell block,
> which then requires 'applescript's text item delimiters'.
>
> it's exactly like needing to use 'my' before a handler call within a tell
> block.
> it answers the question of 'whose text item delimiters'.
> otherwise the application will say 'i don't have anything called text item
> delimiters'.
>
>
There are were some that did. I just checked a couple of the usual
suspects (Finder, TextEdit) and they didn't.
When it is implemented in applications it allows for some tricky
inheritance things to be done.
Also beware that it persists for the application. For instance change
it in the script editior and it effects other open scripts!
-Mark
"And this is what we called fun..."
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