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localized string and 10.6
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  • Subject: localized string and 10.6
  • From: KOENIG Yvan <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:29:20 +0100

localized string is an useful function of Standard Additions which I use very often.

localized string v : Return the localized string for the specified key
localized string text : the key
[from table text] : the name of the strings file excluding the “.strings” suffix (default is “Localizable”)
[in bundle file] : an alias or file reference to the bundle containing the strings file (default is the current application/script bundle)
→ text : the localized string

Example :
[SCRIPT]
tell application "Safari"
	get localized string "Are you sure you want to close this window?"
end tell
[/SCRIPT]

Since 10.6, there is an annoying feature.
Calling an OSAX from a tell application "wxyz" block generates errors
which happily are automatically trapped.

On a French system,running the script above issue this log report

[SCRIPT]
tell application "Safari"
	localized string "Are you sure you want to close this window?"
		--> error number -1708
	«event ascrgdut»
		--> error number -1708
	localized string "Are you sure you want to close this window?"
		--> "Souhaitez-vous vraiment fermer cette fenêtre ?"
end tell
Résultat :
"Souhaitez-vous vraiment fermer cette fenêtre ?"
[/SCRIPT]

On an English one, it will return :

[SCRIPT]
tell application "Safari"
	localized string "Are you sure you want to close this window?"
		--> error number -1708
	«event ascrgdut»
		--> error number -1708
	localized string "Are you sure you want to close this window?"
		--> "Are you sure you want to close this window?"
end tell
Result :
"Are you sure you want to close this window?"
[/SCRIPT]

May we be sure that this kind of error has no odd effects ?

I'm puzzled because, if most of the time I may move calls to OSAXen out of tell blocks,
I really don't know how to do that for localized string whose target's resource is defined by the tell block.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 21 janvier 2011 18:19:54



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