Re: whose class is folder...
Re: whose class is folder...
- Subject: Re: whose class is folder...
- From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 11:36:18 +0900
Thank you for the comment Jim.
> On Apr 7, 2018, at 11:28, Jim Underwood <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Just to chime in on Shane's suggestion to use a "repeat loop", I can report
> that after some extensive testing by Chris Stone (@ccstone) and myself last
> year, we actually found that in some cases repeat loops are faster than whose
> clauses, even though you can do the query entirely in whose clauses.
>
> This can vary by app, since, as Shane as said, it is the app that implements
> the whose clause, not core AppleScript.
>
> Previously, I had thought of repeat loops as "second class citizens". Little
> did I know . . . 😉
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jim Underwood
> aka JMichaelTX
>
>
> From: AppleScript-Users
> <applescript-users-bounces+jmichael=email@hidden
> <mailto:applescript-users-bounces+jmichael=email@hidden>> on
> behalf of Shane Stanley <email@hidden
> <mailto:email@hidden>>
> Date: Friday, April 6, 2018 at 7:58 PM
> To: "ASUL (AppleScript)" <email@hidden
> <mailto:email@hidden>>
> Subject: Re: whose class is folder...
>
> On 7 Apr 2018, at 10:39 am, Jean-Christophe Helary
> <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>>
> wrote:
> So I'm kind of stuck aren't I ?
>
> In terms of whose clauses, yes. But you can still use a repeat loop to get
> the same result.
>
> --
> Shane Stanley <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>>
> <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>
Jean-Christophe Helary
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