At 3:12 pm +0100 7/8/06, has wrote: >...The most serious bug I can remember is that list-to-Unicode-text >coercions return truncated results if the original text contains >certain non-ASCII characters (most of them, I think). You can avoid >that by using (e.g.) TextCommands' join command instead. Yes, well nothing seems to have been done to fix that bug. Does anyone know if Chris Nebel is still drawing a salary from Apple and if so what for? I think we've all learned to live with AppleScript as it is and use other languages to taste. I have yet to find anything to compete with Smile for scripted graphic work. The most depressing thing for me is that not only are fewer and fewer new applications scriptable but that the app-specific scripts menu is now a rarity (and Apple's scripts menu is totally useless). This was once the only redeeming feature of Apple Mail, which now has practically none, and I fear that when Eudora 7 is finally released, some time in the coming century, we shall lose the scripts menu and linkable toolbar which are matched for convenience only in BBEdit. Any application that doesn't allow the user to perform everyday tasks of any complexity with key combinations is about as good as an app written for System 6. I personally find almost all of Apple's own applications quite useless, insubstantial and impossibly slow and of them use only TextEdit, thankful that it's rather more clever than SimpleText and notepad.exe. JD