Re: on blocking target applications' GUIs (was Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
Re: on blocking target applications' GUIs (was Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
- Subject: Re: on blocking target applications' GUIs (was Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:11:23 -0800
- Thread-topic: on blocking target applications' GUIs (was Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
On 12/18/08 3:54 PM, "Chris Page" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2008, at 3:52 AM, Nigel Garvey wrote:
>
>> I for one always ignore Script menus in applications. If I'm
>> thinking about "running a script", I want to go directly to the
>> familiar "Script Menu" menu and not have to bother about there being
>> another "Scripts" menu in the application itself. It's also
>> convenient to have all one's useful scripts in the Library/Scripts/
>> hierarchy and not in various locations chosen by application
>> developers.
>
> That's not what I'm suggesting. Script menus in applications should
> still get their scripts from the same per-application folder that the
> global Scripts menu does.
>
> Per-application Script menus are easier to navigate and use because
> they only contain scripts intended for that application, and they're
> positioned along with all the other application menus instead of off
> to the right (which becomes a bigger problem as displays get larger).
There are some applications that have had Script menus far, far longer than
Apple has been providing one. In these cases, long-time scripters will know
where their script menu folders live. It's worth using these, not just
because of the location of the menu and the control of the application
passing to the script (blocking user interaction during script run, as we've
been discussing), but also because they almost invariably also have a naming
scheme for running scripts via keyboard shortcut, an invaluable aid.
All you have to do (Nigel), is learn once where the application's own script
folder location is. Then you can set an alias to it in the usual
~/Library/Scripts/ hierarchy, and can from then on use the standard script
menu if you find it more convenient. The "Open Scripts Folder" item there
will even open the original folder, wherever it may be, if you have put the
alias into the Applications subfolder and named it how the Apple script menu
prefers.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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