>Alain: Why are you both assuming that i was talking
>about bookmarks?? I was indeed talking about search
>paths. Anthony was suggesting that my approach of
>having OpenKard manage the search paths internally
>would make the Applications, Documents and Stacks
>non-accessible to the user for customization. In
>response, i suggested some new OpenTalk syntax that
>would allow the user to customize search paths,
>despite the fact that they are handled internally.
>This new OpenTalk syntax was inspired from
>AppleScript's favorites feature, but my spin has
>nothing to do with MacOS favorites or with Web
>bookmarks.
Alain,
we were misled then, by the coincidence that your syntax proposal appeared
to contain whole file paths, not just whole and partial folder paths.
>Alain: I have scripted HyperTalk in French in my time,
>so here is how it works: The English menus and
>menuItems are always available to a script, despite
>the fact that they may not be present in your French
>menubar. French menuItems are converted to their
>English equivalents by HC's Translator Interface
>BEFORE they are interpreted by HyperCard.
Now that you mention it, I dimly seem to recall that this is how it used
to work with the German HC version, too. Sadly, it's been some time since
there was a German HyperCard release.
>Same goes
>for anything typed into the message box. You activate
>all of this by setting the language property of
>HyperCard to the name of a WTRN resource. In my case,
>the WTRN resource's name was "French" and it mainly
>contained English<-->French string substitutions.
I heard about HyperTalk having support for other languages besides
English, but so far I had only heard that there were hooks, but they had
never actually created localized versions of HyperTalk, only of the menus
and dialogs. Or is this example about the AppleScript French dialect?
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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