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Re: bug #18283 / change "Enable applescript in NextStep"
From: |
David Reitter |
Subject: |
Re: bug #18283 / change "Enable applescript in NextStep" |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 07:02:45 -0500 |
Anders,
Thank you. That sounds like a good change then, but I needed your explanation
to understand.
- David
> On Nov 25, 2015, at 12:44 AM, Anders Lindgren <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This change allows applescripts like the following to work:
>
> tell application "Emacs"
> set the bounds of the first window to {100, 100, 500, 500}
> end tell
>
> Without the change, the following error message is issued:
>
> test.oas:23:89: execution error: Emacs got an error: Can’t set bounds of
> window 1 to {100, 100, 500, 500}. (-10006)
>
> However, after the change, Emacs repositions and resizes its frame nicely.
>
>
> So, the reporter of bug #18283 literally requested this change, but I think
> that may have just been a somewhat silly way to say: “Can you please support
> AppleScript?”
>
> But perhaps I’m misunderstanding all of this and there’s a grand master plan.
>
> The original poster asked for this change in order to write automatic tests
> for the NextStep user interface. Concretely, it was used to verify that the
> recent problems with tool-bar-mode setting the wrong frame size was solved. I
> am absolutely sure that he did not implicitly expected a full AppleScript
> interface to be implemented.
>
> -- Anders Lindgren
>