A bit more UI capabilities? (was: Re : on blocking target applications' GUIs)
A bit more UI capabilities? (was: Re : on blocking target applications' GUIs)
- Subject: A bit more UI capabilities? (was: Re : on blocking target applications' GUIs)
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:48:06 +0100
Le 19 déc. 08 à 01:23, Chris Page a écrit :
On Dec 18, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Ed Stockly wrote:
Also, some apps (Adobe) have user interface items that I can use in
my scripts I mentioned this before but you dismissed it as a side
issue, but it's not.
I never intend to sound dismissive. All I recall is asking the list
which aspect of ‘display alert’ and ‘display dialog’ is critical to
the correct operation of your scripts.
Hello Chris,
I'll probably digress somewhat with this one, and possibly just state
the obvious.
One fundamental aspect of those commands is that they provide a way to
interact with the user during execution (who would have guessed?).
But they are a bit too limited in their design.
For example, should one need more than three choices (hence, more than
three buttons), it is required to nest multiple dialogs:
- please make your choice: "A", "B", or "Other..."
- please make your choice: "Other - A", "Other - B", or "Other - Other"
- and so on
or to devise some more or less clever (naughty?) tricks with the help
of "choose from list".
They are also a bit too limited in their scope.
For example, native progress bars and keyboard sensing would certainly
delight more than one scripter.
Perhaps would it be a good idea to integrate such capabilities into
AppleScript, while preserving its current KISS approach for such
matters (I mean, no need to incorporate a full-fledged say,
AppleScript-Studio into the language, just small incremental changes
such as allowing more than three buttons in a dialog).
And anyway, many thanks for your involvement,
Axel _______________________________________________
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