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Re: Can not get "item" from "position"


  • Subject: Re: Can not get "item" from "position"
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 21:17:03 +0200

At 1:40 PM +0100 4/5/07, has wrote:
Neat. Adobe apps are probably more the exception than the rule - the majority of scripting apps don't have nearly such extensive scripting support. Like I say, there's no technical reason it can't be done; it's just that 99% of applications never bother.

And sometimes they do well. Implementing sophisticated AppleScript handling has some limits. Like Gödel could say, you can forge AppleScript propositions that are undecidable: the fact that they aren't true does not imply that their contrary is false. An obvious example is:


every window whose first paragraph begins with "Quomodo is a cool site, you should use it"

If a window is empty, then it won't be returned by the statement above, but neither by:

every window whose first paragraph does not begin with "Quomodo is a cool site, you should use it"

This kind of limit, that you have to face when you implement AppleScript in a program, can make it an impossible challenge to implement more than a basic object model.

Emmanuel
Satimage-software and Quomodo
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