Re: Can I check InDesign is open?? (AS)

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From: Shane Stanley
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 23:22

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in article 1de826b6.4@WebX.la2eafNXanI, Charles Sholdt wrote:

> The only thing is is that this particular class is listed in OS X 10.2.4's
> "Legacy" suite, so I don't know if it is going to disappear or what.

It's marked as legacy because it's not really a Finder function any more.
The Finder actually passes a lot of jobs on to a special app called System
Events to handle (it's all done transparently).

So at some stage these sorts of commands may have to be addressed to System
Events directly, but doing it via the Finder helps keep scripts (more)
backwards compatible.

It's possible that, eventually, Finder scripting will mainly be scripting
the Finder's UI, with System Events handling the actual "work" side of
things. You can already tell System Events to do things like moving and
duplicating files.

-- 
Shane Stanley,  sstanley@myriad-com.com.au

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