Re: Can I get a list of app-defined keywords?
Re: Can I get a list of app-defined keywords?
- Subject: Re: Can I get a list of app-defined keywords?
- From: David Springer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 15:07:29 -0600
Matthew,
Thanks for the tip, but it doesn't help me. Moving forward, I'll be sure to use a better naming scheme.
Still, I would like to know how to crawl the other app's list of keywords. Changing the names in my scripts now doesn't help the several million uses who have the current version of my app installed. Their apps will break.
- Dave.S
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Matthew Smith
<email@hidden> wrote:
Since AppleScript usually uses simple nouns in both singular and plural form you are better off naming your variables and properties as something more complex in order to avoid situations like this.
For example, in your situation below you could have used something like pointList. I would be surprised to discover an application would use this form for a keyword. You could also do it as point_list. Using an underscore character would be less likely to conflict with keywords.
Matthew Smith
email@hidden
On 04/08/2009, at 06:49 , David Springer wrote:
Folks,
I know about reading the app's dictionary - but only by using Script Editor. This does not provide enough information.
I have an app whose previous version did NOT define 'points' as a keyword, but the current (beta) version does. So all my scripts break. I can ask the devs of the app to fix this, but I need positive proof that the new version of the app really defines the 'points' keyword.
Opening the apps' dict in SE does not give me a list of keywords. Is there a way to do this? Either by using AppleScript or Cocoa (objc)? I have been scouring the archives, the docs, etc. and cannot find out how to read an apps dict or get a list of keywords. But obviously, SE does this. Anyone know how?
Thanks!
- Dave.S
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