On Feb 17, 2008 12:17 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On 16 Feb 2008, at 11:47 PM, Derick Fay wrote:
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> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Nicholas Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> You know you can add smart groups for that?
>
> Christiaan
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> That had occurred to me, but what I meant, really was the automatic
> creation of smart-group-like things.
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> Or, to put it a different way, a sort of calendar view.
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> This would be quite easy to do with Applescript.....if smart groups were
> Applescriptable. I had brought this up on the list last year (
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=1D486553-C9E8-4928-A320-635B7D3AB5B3%40gmail.com)
> and was told it wasn't likely. There seems to be a bug in UI scripting
> that makes it impossible to create smart groups with UI scripting, so that's
> not an option either.
> I don't know what others think, but I am quite happy with the user
> interface / layout in BibDesk & would prefer to see scarce development time
> going into making more features of the application scriptable.
>
> I think there are a lot of useful applications for smart group
> Applescripting beyond the calendar view that Nicholas requested -- e.g. I
> would like to set up context menus (using OnMyCommand to call an
> Applescript) to create new author- or keyword-based smart groups from a text
> selection.
>
> My $0.02
>
> Derick
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> In the latest nightlies most of the groups is scriptable. The one thing
> that is not scriptable is configuring smart groups. The reason is that the
> complexity and validation of the smart group configuration sheet is hard, if
> not impossible, to reproduce in AppleScript. And we certainly won't
> introduce code where you can easily create invalid settings and possibly
> crash BibDesk.
>
> Christiaan
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>
Also, I find it hard to imagine why this could be useful. It does not look
to me like something to automate. I would rather say that configuring smart
groups by AppleScript would be harder than through the UI.
Christiaan
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