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


  • Subject: Re: Scripting Help Viewer?
  • From: Thomas Fischer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 13:13:12 +0200

Hello,

I think this is a bug in Snow Leopard.
I use SL 10.6.3 with AppleScript-Editor v2.3 and 

1.
tell application "Help Viewer"
prompts me to find  "Help Viewer" and changes the line to 
tell application "HelpViewer".

tell application id "com.apple.helpviewer"
works without problems.

So the name must have been changed sometime before 5.0.2. There was another annoying change: Now there is no way anymore to allow to push the Help window into the background, as was possible in 10.5. Or does anybody know one?

2. The line
tell application "HelpViewer" to search looking for "folder"
is changed to the event
tell application "HelpViewer"
search current application looking for "folder"
end tell

When I try to run this from the AppleScript-Editor, it will compile (translate), but when I try to run it, I receive
«event helpsrch» current application given «class sstr»:"folder"
--> error number -1708
I think this indicates that there is something wrong with the implementation of the
search specifier : the object for the command

3. I don't know how the search command relates to the lookup command
lookup anchor "AppleScript" in book "AppleScript Help"
which doesn't produce anything but an error message from HelpViewer ("could not open…).

All the best
Thomas


Am 13.05.2010 um 01:50 schrieb jeff ganyard:


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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