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Re: Text items


  • Subject: Re: Text items
  • From: kai <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:11:13 +0000


On 17 Jan 2007, at 23:57, Stockly, Ed wrote:

>>>>However, I think Kai's technique is certainly a more clever, efficient, and general solution.

I would agree that it's very clever, but I'm not sure if it's any more efficient than using a simple AppleScript loop and I'm not sure if it's a more general solution or if you even want a more general solution.

It's more general than a solution requiring a predefined list of name extensions to work. Hard-coding a script to work in very specific circumstances is one way to gain a speed advantage, although it's quite a trade-off. However, for a one-off situation, there's nothing wrong with that. Horses for courses, I guess.


>>>>Would someone like to give a line-by-line explanation of how it does what it does?

Adam has done that but I don't think he got the purpose of using the script object just right, the script object holds a copy of the list in a property, which allows the script to refer to the property of the script object with a tell.

As previously, I've no intention of responding to the personal opinions expressed in the rest of your message. However, I should point out that the use of a script object has nothing at all to do with tell statements.


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kai


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