Re: How to do a goto with Applescript?
Re: How to do a goto with Applescript?
- Subject: Re: How to do a goto with Applescript?
- From: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 20:05:36 -0800
On Jan 3, 2011, at 7:34pm, Robert Poland wrote:
> I wonder what the excuse of the Smile team is for not being able to search application dictionaries?
Beats me, but Script Debugger searches the hell out of dictionaries.
You can search an individual dictionary or lookup terms in multiple dictionaries.
You can even search the AppleScript internal dictionary (but 'repeat,' 'if,' 'try' don't give results because they are not appleScript commands). Still I don't think you will learn anything useful in the internal dictionary until you've reached an intermediate or advanced scripting level.
ES
> On Jan 3, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Stockly, Ed wrote:
>
>> Michelle > But that's really moot, as the discussion was searching
> Applescript's internal directory.
>
> Yes and there is actually a reason why the dictionary isn't searchable. (In
> the old days you couldn't even look at the AppleScript dictionary in Script
> Editor). Included in AppleScript's internal dictionary are classes and
> other things that are not actually used but are there to provide developers
> a common framework for working with those classes (at least that's how it
> was explained to me.)
>
> Bottom line is that the applescript internal dictionary is NOT designed as
> documentation for the appleScript language and is not intended to be used
> the same way application dictionaries are.
>
> If you want documentation on a term, like 'repeat', go to the AppleScript
> Language Guide or any of the numerous books written about appleScript, or
> ask on this list or search the archives. Any of those methods will provide
> a better, more definitive answer than poking around the AppleScript
> dictionary in Script Editor.
>
> ES
>
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