On 2/28/01 1:27 AM, "Joseph Linaschke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> However one shouldn't have to use third party scripts to get around an
>>> issue. The software should just work, as it is.
>>
>> Not true when the software developers heavily incorporate AppleScript. They
>> didn't do this because they didn't want to add features to the program, but
>> because they could never have every feature that everyone wants. Some
>> "issues" aren't "issues" at all, but just different ways of working and that
>> is the beauty of having AS incorporated and people like Paul and Allen
>> around! ;-)
>
> Fair enough... but if you said that any feature that doesn't currently exist
> should just be handled by AppleScript, then by that logic we would never
> need to evolve past 1.0. Personally I feel that something as basic and
> necessary as looking up a contact in your database should be handled pretty
> efficiently by the application itself. It is, after all, supposed ot be a
> Personal Information Manager.
Granted, which is why I added the comment below:
>> That being said, MS has said that they are aware of this (obviously)
>> and I would bet that it will be addressed in a future release. Dan Crevier
>> is not one to leave a database un-optimized! (Is that a word?)
>
> Yes, which is why I said that the fix was beyond my scope, but must be
> possible... to be honest, the only reason I put it in there was to make it
> more clear why I thought some of the other points (name or company
> contains..., for example) made sense.
Sure and they are good points. It is just (as you have seen in other
messages on this thread), periodically someone will say that any solution
found via an AS written by someone other MS is the result of MS doing an
incomplete job when in fact it is really MS making Erage more flexible than
just about any other app out there. As you can see some folks are sensitive
on that.
That being said, the DB is a fundamental element of Erage and the MS folks
are always working to improve that sort of thing, including, I imagine, the
interface. How much of this will be addressed in a service release verses
waiting for a full version upgrade, I don't know.
Cb
cbrady @ tulane.edu
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