Hello, How can I get rid of all the tooltips. I looked in all the preferences panels and in the documentation but I don't see a way to stop tooltips appearing...
Emmanuel. M. Decarie
emm@...
Oct 5, 2001 6:04 pm
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... There is no way presently to disable those tool tips. There are preferences settings to hide tool tips in dictionary windows, script windows and browsers....
Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Oct 5, 2001 6:16 pm
310
Thanks Mark for the answer. For the next SD revision, I suggest a global pref to toggle off globally all tooltips. Cheers ... -- ...
Emmanuel. M. Decarie
emm@...
Oct 5, 2001 6:23 pm
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Currently I have FileMaker perform the looping and call my javascript each time through the loop, but I wan to have the javascript control the looping. I want...
Hardy Macia
hardy@...
Oct 11, 2001 1:48 pm
312
... You can try something like this: var app = MacOS.appBySignature("FMP5"); with (app) { _strict = false; // important because FMP's dictionary is lame ...
Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Oct 11, 2001 4:49 pm
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Hi Folks, OK, here it is. JavaScript for OSA 1.0 has gone final! The initial 1.0 version was included with Script Debugger 3.0. This release includes a few ...
Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Oct 11, 2001 6:01 pm
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... initial 1.0 This is awesome! Way to go! I've been following this for years now and I'm glad to see it progressing. [Now if I could just get gecko to run...
Has anyone attempted to work with Quark's selection object? I seem to do OK when the selection is any sort of box or graphic element, but any attempt to work...
... Allow me to respond to myself... Of course, I'm going to use the customary work-around involving the AEDesc object. For those of you not familiar with it,...
Although I'm fairly new to JavaScript in general, I really prefer it to AppleScript. Over time, I figure I can adjust to the added effort required when writing...
Mike Myers
myersm@...
Oct 24, 2001 3:54 pm
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... I greatly prefer it to AppleScript, but I keep running up against various obstacles that make a complete transfer to JSOSA very difficult. ... Is a "tied...
... At present there are no built-in capabilities for dealing with persistence in JavaScript OSA. You'll have to do this by writing to files using Apple's ...
Hi Folks, I would like to include more Mac OS X sample scripts in the next version of JavaScript OSA. If you have any you are willing to share, please pass...
... I consider this to be very low priority, but I mention it here because of the topic of disscussion: How about a Core.save() method to compliment...
Hi, all. I'm about to try out JSOSA and would like to know if there are any conflicts with OtherMenu. I originally had OSA Menu installed but that did conflict...
... I've not tried JSOSA with OtherMenu or ScriptStrip so I can't comment on compatibility issues. Others on the list may be able to give us some insight. ...
There is a script sample in the "Introducing JavaScript OSA.pdf" document which shows how to compile, execute, and capture the returned result of a JS OSA...
... It works pretty well with version 6.1.2 under system 9.1 as well. ... One of my favorite meaningless activities in the whole world is to format JavaScript...
... well alright then,there are some laundry issues here you might enjoy tackling for me as well. -:) I was curious to see if executing a jsosa script _not_...
... Right, but this is an "editing/debugging" lag. A compiled JS applet runs just as quickly, if not faster, than it would in Apple's Script Editor window. ......
I've discovered that an object's value is persisting across multiple script runs when executing in Script Debugger, but NOT persisting when I execute the code...
... Right, so lastIndex gets pushed after every execution. ... And multiple runs, without recompiling, don't seem to re-initialize the "var regexPattern =...
... [snip] ... The difference is that you are keeping the document open between runs in Script Debugger. If, in Script Debugger, you close and re-open your...
The difference is that you are keeping the document open between runs in Script Debugger. -- Yup, I failed to see the obvious (again). When BBEdit executes a...
Hello. I just spend most of an afternoon trying to figure out why I couldn't get the Finder to do almost anything at all, until I finally set the _strict...
Hi :) There are a great many values returned from AppleEvents that get *mapped* to native JavaScript data types. I was wondering if there was some way to...
... I'm wondering if this is a special case which we could handle in an even more usable way, or are there other cases like this? A perfect solution would be...
... Given that I've defined the behavior of _strict, I'm afraid to change it in case it breaks some ones script. ... I think the best way to deal with this is...
... After a quick look at the AppleScript Language Guide, I didn't see anything else that would require special attention. (BTW: What is the purpose of the...