Re: "a reference to"
Re: "a reference to"
- Subject: Re: "a reference to"
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:03:14 +0000
On 10 Jan 2008, at 03:12, Chris Page wrote:
None of which is remotely obvious to users, mind you, since
AppleScript obfuscates it all to heck.
Do you have a suggestion for how to make it less obfuscated?
Short of redesigning the language to fix all its faults at source, all
you can really do is provide better documentation to help guide users
through all the stuff that isn't obvious. Given that AppleScripters
tend to be task-oriented, the best approach may be to provide simple
code examples demonstrating what works and what doesn't, e.g.:
tell application "Finder"
get text 1 thru 3 of name of home -- doesn't work
end tell
vs.
tell application "Finder"
get text 1 thru 3 of (get name of home) -- works
end tell
and from there you can go on to explain why.
has
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