On Apr 24, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Bruce Robertson wrote: >> At 12:21 PM -0600 4/24/08, Chuck Pelto wrote: >>>>> And yes, there's no real reward for the work and lots of other >>>>> things >>>>> competing for my very limited time. >>>>> >>>>> Jon >>>> >>>> Well, I, for one, certainly appreciate being able to use that >>>> tool in >>>> hundreds of scripts and numerous environments for more than 10 >>>> years now. >>>> >>>> Thank you, Jon. >>> >>> I'll say that I'm willing to pay for the product. It sure as heck >>> has saved >>> ME a lot of time. >> >> I'm glad Jon's Commands was as popular as it was, coming on the >> heels of >> AppleScript itself. However, it wasn't much work to create it as >> the initial >> commands came from largely just recompiling my old HyperCard >> xcmds. Now I'd >> need to rewrite all of them completely and test them on PPC and >> Intel. >> >> If I were interested in a second job, perhaps I'd be more >> enthusiastic. ;) >> >> Jon > > What's the level of effort required? Any chance you'd turn it over to > somebody else; or do something like get a hold of Seattle Xcoders > (dBug > programming SIG) and see if somebody there wants to tackle it or > assist? > > <http://www.dbug.org/sigs/xcoders/> > > <http://lists.seattlexcoders.org/mailman/listinfo/xcoder-talk> > My guess is he would have to port it from Pascal and toolbox calls. -Mark Remembers writing a page of pascal to ask for the name of document 1.