Re: Droplet

[Esther]

Droplets are not accessible.  These are basically a class of  
applications (including AppleScripts) that activate when users do a  
drag and drop of a file onto the droplet app.  That activates the  
application and it acts on the file.  For example, I posted earlier  
today about how Mac users who wanted to work in another language, and  
check spelling in French (for example) could use a command in  
terminal to open TextEdit to work on a file in a French language  
localization at the same time your usual TextEdit sessions are set to  
open in English.  Well, at least one poster on Mac OS X Hints solved  
that problem by using AppleScript to write a "droplet" that would do  
that;  for regular text editing you open TextEdit the normal way.   
For occasional files you want to open with a (in his case) Japanese  
language localization, you grab the file in question with your mouse,  
and drag it onto the droplet which opens it in TextEdit with the  
desired language localization for spell-checking or whatever.  I  
think the word "droplet" comes from "drag and drop" plus "AppleScript- 
let".

HTH
Cheers,

Esther

On Aug 6, 2008, at 11:53 AM, vashaun jones wrote:

I keep hearing droplet used in certain Mac applications, what are  
they and what are they used for?