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


  • Subject: Re: Scripting Help Viewer?
  • From: jeff ganyard <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 16:50:37 -0700


On May 12, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Deivy Petrescu wrote:


On May 12, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:


On May 12, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Robert Poland wrote:

On my SL it's spelled "HelpViewer", with no spaces.

Right, but the OP said it launched Help Viewer.

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Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden


The OP is wrong.
It is HelpViewer 
and he is not using the dictionary properly:


search v : Search the given help book, or all books, for the given text and display the result
search specifier : the object for the command
looking for text : The text to search for in Help



So, search the specifier, which was not given. 
I think it should be "current url" or something to this order.
but it also does not produce much

On Snow Leopard poking around at Help Viewer/HelpViewer/com.apple.helpviewer (all of which approaches behave in the same manner) version 5.0.2, there is simply nothing to specify for a reference. Yes, the dictionary indicates that there is something called current url but I have yet to find any circumstance (opening various help books and pages) when there is a value for that property.

It all feels a little broken and/or incomplete to me. Unfortunately the target environment is 10.6, so I have no options there.

By "does not produce much" do you mean something other than it only activates the app?

  Jeff

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