On 1/2/03 1:41 AM, "SVEN AERTS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Save compiled scripts in the Entourage Script Menu Items folder inside your > Documents folder for them to appear in this menu" > > I was surprised the scripts have to be put in a user specific folder, can't > they be in the shared folder or in the Application folder ?
These are "compiled scripts", not script applications. Entourage has been specially engineered to run them itself. That means they run much faster, since they are not applications which have to take 5-10 seconds of bouncing in the dock before they start. If you want to re-save a script as an application, you can put it wherever you fell like putting it. then you have to go searching for it - another 30 seconds or so. Instead, if you put it in the designated folder (which is where Mickey says it is) it starts up eight away and just runs. (Back in OS 8/9, there was another advantage, which is that with Entourage 2001 itself - usually 11-20 K of RAM allotted, rather than an applet which most people never thought of increasing from its standard 200-500K RAM, it would run incredibly faster. This isn't a consideration in OS X where it will take as much RAM as it needs.) Another place you can put a compiled script now is in the Jaguar Script Menu, if you know how to do that. Then it's available from anywhere at any time. But with longer scripts, you have to make sure that it's saved as a "Data Fork Only" script, i.e. saved in the Jaguar Script Editor - which unfortunately can't compile long scripts! - or in Script Debugger or Smile as Data Fork scripts. Scripts pre-dating OS 10.2 will have normally been saved as Resource Fork scripts, which aren't reliable in the Jaguar Script menu but are 100% reliable run by Entourage. To be run in Entourage it has to be in the correct folder where Entourage looks for scripts. Only then does it appear in its script menu. How exactly did you think scripts got into that script menu? If you put a compiled script on your desktop, how is Entourage to know it's there? Of course if you don't mind the 8-second startup time, you can save it as an application and go noodling about your desktop if you really want to. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP Entourage PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. -- 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/>
