Updates: Mac OS X 10.1.2 (build 5P48) is out. That’s a long download over a modem. Features include Applescript 1.8, so I’m going to go test Manila Envelope to see how it works with the changes.
Day: December 20, 2001
School blogs, school blogs
Reading the old referral logs, I found a great site: schoolblogs.com. Peter Ford, your project deserves more exposure than my small platform can give you, but here goes anyway: providing technology for education even on the scale of one class is hard, and providing it across a whole school strikes me as nothing short of incredible.
Manila Envelope – Part 6
I didn’t update about Manila Envelope yesterday because I didn’t do a lot of successful things with it. I hit a few snags in AppleScript Studio, some having to do with getting data or states from controls and some having to do with lack of visibility in the debugger in certain situations.
However, I do have news items working (albeit with one major hack). One snag I ran into: “title” is now an AppleScript Studio reserved word (along with “password” and “URL”). This means that if you are populating a SOAP structure that has “title” as one of the element names, you have to escape it using vertical bars (e.g. |title|:myTitleVariable) or else AppleScript Studio just plain doesn’t include it as an element in the structure. I had learned this with password and URL the hard way before, but title is a new one. I could say something learned and witty about the importance of avoiding namespace conflicts in published interfaces, but (a) I’m too groggy from fighting this thing and (b) after all, Dave et al didn’t have AppleScript naming standards in mind when they were writing the interface.
iTunes2…well, everything!
A cool download from Apple late yesterday — a script addition to iTunes that provides CDDB and eMusic searches, track text search and replace, control of equalization settings, building CD tray inserts, and more! Check it out. And while you’re at it, <shameless plug>download my iTunes2Manila script to post your current iTunes track to your Manila web page</shameless plug>.