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Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)
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Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)


  • Subject: Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:30:05 +1100
  • Thread-topic: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)

On 14/12/08 1:40 AM, "has" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Yep, these are the ones I think are most likely to be affected as
> well. e.g. There may be times when a script developer might want a
> dialog to appear within, say, Finder, rather than the process running
> the script. Though as said before, any inconvenience to AppleScripters
> has to be measured against any risk to platform stability or security,
> and in most, if not all, cases there are other ways to achieve
> equivalent behaviours.

I'm not sure there *are* other ways to achieve the desired result with
dialogs at present. Maybe this is a dumb question, but is there any reason
the UI-related commands couldn't be moved into AS itself?

--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
AppleScript Pro Florida, April 2009 <http://scriptingmatters.com/aspro>


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