Re: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
Re: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
- Subject: Re: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:17:09 -0800
- Thread-topic: TextEdit, is it really that lame?
On 3/7/06 7:30 PM, "Bill Briggs" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> To be fair to TextEdit, it's actually Cocoa Scripting's standard Text Suite
>> implementation that's crap. (This is one of its less significant flaws.) This
>> means that all applications that use the standard Cocoa Scripting
>> implementation are similarly affected. File feature requests and bug reports,
>> and perhaps some day these sorts of problems might finally get fixed in the
>> Cocoa Scripting framework, which would be good.
>
> As I look at the applications I use in the run of the day, it seems that
> Cocoa doesn't figure in the picture. FrameMaker for technical docs, AlphaX for
> text editing, Tex-Edit Plus if scripting text, Eudora for mail, FileMaker
> Developer, MatLab, Terminal, Script Debugger, and that's about 98% of my
> computer usage. Not a Cocoa bean in sight. But I still have vivid memories of
> when Mail was released, being in a hotel room trying to script it after having
> scripted Eudora for years. What a fright and a fight that was. But there was a
> Mail developer on the list for a while and I was under the impression that
> some of the abominations were fixed.
Address Book in Panther and Tiger (not Jaguar) is a model Cocoa app now.
iCal in Tiger isn't bad. They've both been fixed and improved beyond
recognition from their earliest incarnations. But it's the Cocoa Text Suite,
as has was saying, that's still an abomination. My understanding is that
Mail has also improved greatly in Tiger, but it must still be using the Text
Suite in message content windows.
By the way, Script Debugger 4 is Cocoa - and a huge improvement over SD 3.
But due to Apple bugs scriptability (of the app itself) was pulled from 4.0.
Mark has mentioned on the Script Debugger mailing list that due to Apple
fixes in OS 10.4.4, scriptability will be coming back sometime soonish.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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