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Re: Scripting Help Viewer?
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Re: Scripting Help Viewer?


  • Subject: Re: Scripting Help Viewer?
  • From: Stan Cleveland <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 11:43:17 -0700
  • Thread-topic: Scripting Help Viewer?

On 5/11/10 7:47 PM, "jeff ganyard" wrote:

> I will admit to being a little rusty but not too bad..
>
> The dictionary for Help Viewer suggests that this should work.
> ----------
> tell application "Help Viewer"
> activate
> search looking for "file"
> end tell
> ----------
>
> But it doesn't do anything other than activate Help Viewer.
>
> After I found I was having troubles I google'd about and actually found the
> essentially above snippet online in a few different locations.
>
> Bug or user error?

Hi Jeff,

Your snippet works here on Leopard 10.5.8. What OS version are you running?

Stan C.


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