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Re: Accessing Localized File Menu String
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Re: Accessing Localized File Menu String


  • Subject: Re: Accessing Localized File Menu String
  • From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:37:17 -0700

On Jul 9, 2009, at 10:30 PM, Philip Aker wrote:

Any solution in sight for scriptors? In a recent discussion it was found out that some often used Apple applications are setting both the 'name' and the 'title' of menu items to the localized string. This makes it impossible to ask for a menu by an unchanging term and consequently one is forced to use an index (which may be unreliable between releases). I'm not sure if nib tools usable for this situation are available on a user setup which doesn't have the Developer tools installed.

The solution is to report bugs against those applications. <http://bugreport.apple.com/>

A workaround might be to use the available command-line tools to harvest localized strings from the nibs and place them in *.strings files in your script bundle. This ties the script to a particular version of the target application, but could be updated automatically if you wrote a script to do it.

-- 
Chris Page

 The other, other AppleScript Chris

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