Apple: AppleScript In Panther

[scriptguru]

Thanks for the compliment, Sal. You know, a few months ago I left you a private message on this board announcing these scripts and offering to have Apple post them (the offer still stands). It looks like you’ve got a new user name so perhaps you didn’t check that account.

Jon

I forgot my old username… what was it?

I’ll put a link to the scirpts on the website.

BTW< I updated the Protocol webpage to include a version of the encoding script for working with macscripter:

http://www.apple.com/applescript/scripteditor/12.html

I can’t get the MacNN forums to accept it though. Their PHP parser adds HTML breaks in the middle of the code.

[Ray_Barber]

It was “sal” with your apple email address.

[jonn8]

Your username was, oddly enough, “sal”. The message (sent on 7/26) is still listed in my outbox waiting to be read.

Jon

[julifos]

I think the only solution is url-encoding every character different than [:alnum:] chars, and pass such string to the script editor/whatever GURLGURL handler, which will decode the entire chain. As in:

Only for the records of somebody interested, this is false. I was yesterday too tired, sorry. I’ll rewrite this paragraph:
I think the only solution multibrowser is encoding every character using, eg, a hexadecimal notation, so a “0A” is allways a “0A” when it arrives to the GURLGURL handler. This is the solution I suggested some time ago for Peter Bunn’s Missing Link, where it must be passed a file path to an applescript from random browsers.
However, the original solution is not still good enogh, since it only parses the mac-ascii table, eg:

set |vár ?elta| to 5
→ becomes “736574207C76877220B6656C74617C20746F2035”

So, we still need some extra help (eg, UTF-8):

??? ?? → these are some random chars using the “Osaka” font
→ becomes “E8A68BEFBDBFEFBE83EFBDA9EFBE89EFBDBDEFBE83EFBDB7EFBE89EFBE83EFBDA7EFBDB7EFBDA7EFBE8320EFBE8FEFBDB9”

Cheers :oops:

[Rob]

I’ll put a link to the scirpts on the website.

BTW< I updated the Protocol webpage to include a version of the encoding script for working with macscripter:

http://www.apple.com/applescript/scripteditor/12.html

Sal,

I just noticed that the link to MacScripter.net is broken. Here’s what it points to:

http://www.apple.com/applescript/scripteditor/macscripter.net

– Rob