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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: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:15:23 +1100
  • Thread-topic: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)

On 16/12/08 7:11 PM, "Chris Page" <email@hidden> wrote:

> That's not really what I'm asking. You're describing an application
> displaying a modal dialog.

A user double-clicks on an applet that produces an InDesign document and
then comes up with a save dialog; they do the same thing from a similar
script in the Scripts panel. Why should the user experience have to be a
modal dialog in one case and not the other?

You're looking at it too much from a programmer's perspective; to a typical
user, that sort of distinction is at best silly and at worst confusing, not
to mention error-prone.

In some ways you have to think of the script and the app its addressing as
being the one thing, because that's often what it looks like to the user.

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


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