On 4/28/02 4:26 AM, "Mr Tea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> BTW, Entourage will never have any other name than "Microsoft Entourage" - >> there will never be a version number or anything like that. So you don't >> really have to bother with "OPIM". > > Never say never, Paul. :-)
True. But you've now purchased an application whose Development Manager (head of the thing), Dan Crevier, is the man who implemented the AppleScripting of Claris Emailer, Outlook Express and Entourage itself. Do you know of many applications headed by the AppleScript implementer? Outlook Express has been going about 5 or 6 years now, with a few changes of version along the way, and the policy was adopted of never putting the version number on the application file itself. When I first joined the sister mailing list of this one for OE and expressed appreciation of that fact (this was during the heyday of the two-year "Double Tell vs. Raw Code" controversy maintained by John Delacour, Bill Cheeseman et al mostly inspired by the fact that Eudora kept changing its version and application name every few months), I was told that this was precisely the reason why OE did not - so it would not break AppleScripts. And that was when Jud was heading the team, so this policy has been consistent for while. It's part of the "culture" here to respect it. The version number is proudly displayed on the packaging, the outer folder, and so on, but never on the application file itself, in order not to break scripts. If ever there was going to be a temptation to do so, it would have been with all the fanfare over the change to OS X and the introduction of Microsoft Office X (or v. X - they can't even quite make up their minds what to call it). But you still 'tell application "Microsoft Entourage"' - no X. And all the scripts developed for 2001 that don't call 3rd-party scripting additions which don't function in OS X still work in Entourage X. It's true that one has to be vigilant - if not for a certain NDA, I could tell you a little story about that. And personnel and policies can change of course. Still, I thought you'd like to know that you've come somewhere where AppleScript is taken seriously and can even influence major policy decisions. (That attitude hasn't exactly permeated up to MS Word, but we're working on it.) It's probably part of the badge of honor that MS likes to demonstrate to show that its Macintosh products are Mac-oriented. Anyway it's nice to have another scripter on board here. Welcome to Entourage. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
