Re: Delete Bug or Feature?
Re: Delete Bug or Feature?
- Subject: Re: Delete Bug or Feature?
- From: Doug Adams <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:23:20 -0500
On 12 Feb 2008, at 16:40, Doug Adams wrote:
I've always thought that "remove" would be a better command name in
this situation than "delete". It is too similar to the Finder's
delete command, which *does* move a file/alias to the Trash.
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:08:33, has wrote:
The Scripting Interface Guidelines agree with you: make and delete
should be used to create/destroy objects completely, while add and
remove should be used to add/remove existing objects to sub-groups.
e.g. Compare Address Book, which uses add and remove to add/remove
existing person objects to group objects. iTunes predates the SIG,
however, and while its scripting interface is fairly extensive it
does suffer a number of longstanding design quirks.
You should file bug reports and feature requests - as an authority
on iTunes scripting, one would hope the iTunes engineers will give
some weight to your input. Whether or not they can/should/will be
acted on is ultimately going to depend on the amount of work
involved to implement such changes, the amount of backwards-
compatibility breakage that it'll cause for existing scripts, but
hey, it's worth a shot.
Agreed. Backward compatibility is surely an issue. I'd be happy if
they just fixed the bug. (I filed a bug report last night as soon as I
figured it out. Can you believe it took nearly a month of v7.6 before
I noticed it?). It's easy enough to delete a file if you really want to.
And thanks for the SIG info!
Doug
--
Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/
RSS feed:
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/dougs.rss
30 Most Recent Scripts:
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/dougsupdated.rss
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
AppleScript-Users mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
Archives: http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users
This email sent to email@hidden