On Dec 8, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
On Dec 8, 2006, at 8:31 AM, janssen@ccr.jussieu.fr wrote:
Shouldn't these things made to work under (well may be not all but) most language settings? If I was fluent in Applescript I would certainly contribute (Perhaps Xmas time is just the right time to change my current knowledge iof 'languages').
In some sense this is really a shortcoming of AppleScript. No developer should possibly have to know what name a menu item shows to the user, really. Just supporting a couple more languages is not the answer, this is really something that AppleScript should be fixing, and it's not likely to happen I'm afraid.
To be clear, this is not a shortcoming of AppleScript, it's a shortcoming of the R app. If what you really want is to communicate with the data model of the app, you shouldn't have to address the UI elements. The application is supposed to export a proper AppleScript object model. If the application developers have implemented AppleScript support and you're still having to address the UI elements to get results, something is missing from the app's implementation.
Chris