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


  • Subject: Re: Scripting Help Viewer?
  • From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 10:59:36 -0400

On May 14, 2010, at 8:54 PM, email@hidden wrote:

>>>>>> and he is not using the dictionary properly:
>>
>>> I don’t think so, I think the dictionary may not be clear.
>>
>> Really???  :)
>> Do you know of one that is? Ones that are related to Apple's app, of course.
>
> Well, I just don't like blaming the scripter for a broken applescript implementation.

Ed,
I do not want to extend that much longer, but I did not blame the OP for a broken script implementation.
I wrote that he did not use the dictionary properly.
And he did not.

>
>
>>> The object for the command is the application and it works on the front most document/window.
>>
>> No it is not, I believe it is current url  but it does not work. That is it yields no result.
>
>>> There is no “current url” in the dictionary but there is a “current file”, but that also errors.
>>>
>> Look again. It is under application.
>
>
> It's not in earlier versions (10.4). In 10.6 current URL is a property of the app.
>
> Most of the time, if not all the time, it has a missing value.
>
> Sending the command to the application worked in previous implementations.
>
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 >Re: Scripting Help Viewer? (From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Scripting Help Viewer? (From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Scripting Help Viewer? (From: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>)

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