Re: A bit more UI capabilities? (was: Re : on blocking target applications' GUIs)
Re: A bit more UI capabilities? (was: Re : on blocking target applications' GUIs)
- Subject: Re: A bit more UI capabilities? (was: Re : on blocking target applications' GUIs)
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:38:29 -0800
On Dec 20, 2008, at 12:48 AM, Axel Luttgens wrote:
For example, should one need more than three choices (hence, more
than three buttons), it is required to nest multiple dialogs ... or
to devise some more or less clever (naughty?) tricks with the help
of "choose from list".
That is exactly what ‘choose from list’ is for: choosing from several
items. Can you provide an example where using a list would be "naughty"?
Do you mean you need nested controls? Like:
() Choice A
[] an option for A
[] another option for A
() Choice B
[] an option for B
[] another option for B
() is a radio button, [] is a checkbox.
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).
This is why AppleScript Studio was created. This enables people to use
Interface Builder and Cocoa without us having to do a lot of work to
duplicate that functionality. It was created so that we wouldn't have
to turn ‘display dialog’ into something like Dialog Director.
Obviously, finding the right place to draw the line between using a
plain AppleScript and using Studio is challenging.
It helps if people post specific enhancement requests, especially if
you can provide concrete, real-world examples of the problem you need
solved and a description of how you currently solve it:
<http://bugreport.apple.com/>
--
Chris Page
The other, other AppleScript Chris
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