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