Re: What's the REAL problem, please?
Re: What's the REAL problem, please?
- Subject: Re: What's the REAL problem, please?
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 16:27:17 +1000
On 2 Sep 2017, at 3:05 pm, Brian Christmas <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Even other App works with a defined bundle identifier that does not alter
> between releases, but Thorsten in his infinite wisdom, has decided to link
> bundle indentifiers to version releases from now on. Why he decided to add
> the same number to his bundle identifiers only he knows, but I’ve sent a
> grumbling email to him pointing out the problem it causes.
Blaming someone else every time you fail to understand something gets very
tiresome after a while. It's not something peculiar to GraphicConverter -- you
may have seen com.apple.ScriptEditor2, for example -- and if more developers
did it, it would make writing scripts where people use multiple versions a damn
sight easier. Thorsten deserves a thankyou note, not blame-shifting.
If the command is going to work with every version of GraphicConverter, then it
doesn't matter which version's name you use terms from. And if it isn't going
to work with every version of GraphicConverter, you can't use it anyway.
Here's the first link that comes up on a Google search on "using terms from":
> A terms block dictates which application's dictionary AppleScript should get
> the enclosed terminology from, without actually targeting that application.
> Terminology is resolved at compile time; therefore the application must be a
> literal application specifier (otherwise there's a compile-time error, "Can't
> make some data into the expected type"). A terms block is important only at
> compile time (and decompile time); it is effectively ignored at runtime.
It's from 'AppleScript: The Definitive Guide', 2nd Edition by Matt Neuburg. You
should read it some time.
--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>
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