Hi Folks, I've just posted a new build of JavaScript OSA. The big news for this build is that JavaScript OSA is now available as a native OSA component for...
Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Oct 11, 2000 7:27 pm
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Hi all, Just curious, is there a way to work with unit types in JSOSA? I have been playing around with the AEDesc object, creating values like these: ...
Arthur J Knapp
arthur@...
Oct 12, 2000 11:52 pm
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... In working out how to do this, I found that there's a feature of MacOS.AEDesc that's missing from the documentation: the as(desiredType) function. So, for...
Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Oct 13, 2000 1:11 am
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... That's Fantastic !!! (Fantastic that it exists, not fantastic that it isn't documented ;-) ... This is great, Mark. It's also the kind of thing that I...
Arthur J Knapp
arthur@...
Oct 13, 2000 3:02 pm
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... The problem there is that MacOS.appSelf() or MacOS.appBySignature() read all the data types from the target's aete. I also hard coded the addition some ...
Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Oct 13, 2000 5:24 pm
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... This brings me back to an issue we were discussing a while ago: how to load supporting code. With this in place, I can begin shipping libraries of ...
Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Oct 13, 2000 5:34 pm
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... Perhaps it is the fact that this would create a new namespace object, rather than bringing the code into the "top" level, ie: like what Script Debugger...
Arthur J Knapp
arthur@...
Oct 13, 2000 7:17 pm
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Hi Folks, There is a problem with the Declare & Use AS Handlers sample script included with the 1.0b7 release of JavaScript OSA. The text of the script should...
Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Oct 15, 2000 5:46 pm
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I want to use JS as a database. The user may enter the following example after line 9 of the script below: *#frank| fmeas=4.50 finser=4.00 poly=10.0...
MMessieh@...
Oct 17, 2000 1:31 am
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... I'm sorry, but I'm not sure I understand how this relates to JavaScript OSA. Are you simply looking for comments on your JavaScript code, or are you ...
Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Oct 18, 2000 3:52 pm
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I'm sorry, but I'm not sure I understand how this relates to JavaScript OSA. Are you simply looking for comments on your JavaScript code, or are you looking...
MMessieh@...
Oct 19, 2000 6:39 pm
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Hi Folks, If you are using JavaScript OSA natively under MacOS X, you may have already discovered that it cannot script "bundled" applications (e.g. Desktop,...
alldritt@...
Oct 24, 2000 3:30 pm
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OK, the following is my most recent attempt to create a filter for files based on their name. My goals were to search every file in a given folder, perform a ...
Arthur J Knapp
arthur@...
Oct 26, 2000 10:58 pm
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I just noticed that when AppleScript is used there is a least a rudimentary syntax highlighting. Is the JavaScript version going to have this at some point? ...
Robert L Hicks
bob@...
Nov 4, 2000 10:10 pm
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Hello - Netscape is not very AppleScript-able. (Perhaps no wonder when Netscape is making their own scripting system ?) My question is: since JavaScript is a...
lhs@...
Nov 6, 2000 1:54 am
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... This is a common question (I should probably add the answer to the FAQ). JavaScript OSA runs independently from the Netscape/Mozilla web browser. This...
Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Nov 6, 2000 2:47 am
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... You know, I've pondered this from the very beginning of my effort to develop JavaScript OSA. I agree that this is needed, but its been down fairly low on...
Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Nov 6, 2000 2:52 am
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... ..... thank you for answering still :-) Actually, it seems as if you have allready added this to your FAQ. I just did not read the FAQ before asking... ...
Leif Halvard Silli
lhs@...
Nov 6, 2000 3:35 am
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Low priority...while highlighting is nice...that is all it is...nice. So I would consider it low priority. Bob...
Robert L Hicks
bob@...
Nov 6, 2000 3:05 pm
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... My 2-cents-assessment of your feature list is as follows: ;-) ... Great. ... Absolutely. If there are any really good writers on this list, JSOSA could use...
Arthur J Knapp
arthur@...
Nov 6, 2000 3:13 pm
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Does anyone know how to hide all the layers in a page dynamically by calling a function? Do I have to create an array of the DIV id's? thanks for anyhelp Geoff...
geoff@...
Nov 9, 2000 10:47 am
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Hi, I've just started to use JavaScript OSA, and I absolutely love it so far. I'm really just getting going, so these are probably dumb questions... First, I...
Morgan Jones
morgan@...
Nov 10, 2000 5:30 pm
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So here is something interesting: In AppleScript, there are a number of coercions that work in very strange and mysterious ways, especially as regards lists. ...
Arthur J Knapp
arthur@...
Nov 10, 2000 5:45 pm
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... The reason for this is that AppleScript's as operator can do "chained coercions". if you look at the event log when running tell application "Finder" set...
Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Nov 10, 2000 6:04 pm
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... The copy command copies the current selection to the clipboard. Try the duplicate command instead: with (MacOS.finder()) { ...
Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Nov 10, 2000 6:18 pm
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... There is something strange here. As I examine the Finder dictionary, (under System 9.0), the only "copy" command listed refers to the clipboard: copy: Copy...
Arthur J Knapp
arthur@...
Nov 10, 2000 6:24 pm
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... Whoops. So is there an AppleEvent that retrieves all the available properties of an application object? I guess there must be, since this would appear to...
Arthur J Knapp
arthur@...
Nov 10, 2000 6:37 pm
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... Well, no. Script Debugger gets each property individually to get around the general lack of support for "properties" properties. In the case of JSOSA, all...
Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Nov 10, 2000 6:44 pm
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... Sorry, but JavaScript OSA does not have access to a Web Browsers object model. I suggest posing this question on a DHTML list. Cheers -Mark ... Mark...
Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Nov 10, 2000 6:49 pm
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... Thanks much - that works great, and was exactly what I wanted to do. Oddly enough, I appears to have been mislead by Apple's PDF documentation on scripting...
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