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At 11:38 PM -0700 4/24/08, Chris Page wrote:
>Could you elaborate on exactly which part(s) of Jon's Commands you make use of?
The commands I used most were:
keys pressed
set cursor to
play sound
No one has replaced these yet.
Many people loved these screen commands:
screen list
set screens to
Some fellow wrote a unix tool called cscreen, but stopped supporting it.
My file commands avoided the Finder and had no UI:
deleteFile
renameFile
moveFile
copyFile
These are in the system these days but were written before the Finder was scriptable:
sound volume
set sound volume to
machine environment
the clipboard
set the clipboard to
Other miscellaneous weird commands:
the ticks -- for timers
walk folders -- a cool file iterator I used a lot
AE user interaction level -- a way to avoid dialogs sometimes
choose color -- because I could
snag object -- a developer's tool to store an AS object specifier
fileIsBusy -- Leonard made me add this one ;)
Plus the coercions that people both loved and hated:
string to file specification -- 'TEXT' to 'fss '
styled text to file specification -- 'STXT' to 'fss '
international text to file specification -- 'itxt' to 'fss '
script to anything -- 'scpt' to '****'
All of it was useful at one time or another. My thinking was to reimplement the first three and Walk Folders if I ever got around to it. ;)
Jon
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