On 5/7/02 8:24 pm, "Paul Berkowitz" wrote: > In OS X, there are no (or not yet) any scripting additions which will let > you hold down modifier keys when running a script to set different options, > since the script can't "see" these. In OS 9, there were several available, > and that was a handy way to allow preferences to be set by a script author. > In OS X, you have to make a separate PREFS script to load and store changes > in script properties of the main script. that's the main reason why so many > of my own scripts have not yet appeared in an X version. It's quite a > complicated business, or can be. (I'm busy adapting several now that > Export-Import is mostly out of the way.) Perhaps Glenn will do something of > the sort for his script eventually. > > -- > Paul Berkowitz
In a few of my scripts I have got round this by checking to see if a keyword is selected when the script is run. All the user has to do is select a word in an existing 9or new) message, note etc., and then run the script. -- Barry Wainwright <http://www.barryw.net> "The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero -- 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/>
