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Re: How to do a goto with Applescript?
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Re: How to do a goto with Applescript?


  • Subject: Re: How to do a goto with Applescript?
  • From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:57:11 -0600

So Script Debugger lets you see it.  Hmmm.  It must be within a package somewhere.

Maybe the Finder alternative, PathFinder, will let us search inside packages.

Is there any tool that lets us search the entire HD and within packages to find files like this?


On Jan 3, 2011, at 10:49 PM, email@hidden wrote:

> The short answer is that's its a dictionary for root appleScript language.
>
> I'm not sure how to see it in Script Editor. In SD it's just there, labeled appleScript.rsrc
>
> It's not complete, it has stuff that doesn't do anything.
> That said, there are a few gems for the more experienced scripter.
>
> Here's an example for the class "alias":
>
> alias
> alias (noun), pl aliases
> a file on a disk or server. The file must exist when you check the syntax of your script.
>
> properties
> Property	Access	Type	Description
> POSIX path	get	string	the POSIX path of the file
>
>
> Note that the description hasn't been updated. The file does not need to exist when you compile)
>
> ES
>
>
> On Jan 3, 2011, at 8:15pm, Alex Zavatone wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 3, 2011, at 10:05 PM, email@hidden wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Call me stupid and ignant, but what exactly is an internal dictionary?
>

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