Deprecated Modules

ShowHelpBook

ShowHelpBook is an AppleScript module to register/display a help book of current bundle in Help Viewer. The porpose of ShowHelpBook provide a function to display a help book in own bundle to AppleScript applets, droplets and script bundles.

About setting up a help book into a bundle, see Apple's developer documents or HelpBook.osax's manual.

Main tasks are dealt with HelpBook.osax. ShowHelpBook provides error handling and recovering Info.plist.

1.0 -- 2007.06.09
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PathAnalyzer

PathAnalyzer is an AppleScript module to obtain various infomation with analyzing a path to a file or a folder.

Without asking Finder, following infomation can be obtain from various reference types(alias, file specification, path string, furl class and Finder's object specifier).

  • a reference to the folder containing the item
  • a name of the folder
  • a reference to the disk containing the item
  • file name
  • path extension
  • whether the item is a folder or not
1.7.2 -- 2008-11-27
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UniqueNamer

UniqueNamer is an AppleScript module to obtain a unique file name in a specified folder.

If an item which have same name to given candidate exists, UniqueNamer generates a name to which numbers is appended at the end of the base name. For example:

hello.1.text、hello.2.text . . .

Also UniqueNamer can generate a compatible name to the classic enviroment (Mac OS 9 or before). The length of file name is limited under 31 bytes in the classic enviroment.

UniqueNamer is useful for following purposes :

  • Generating a name of temporary files
  • Copying or Making a file without asking a user enter a file name.
  • Avoid opening a save-dialog, which interrupts workflows.
1.6.3 -- 2007.07.25
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StringEngine

StringEngine is a collection of text handling routines of AppleScript. Almost routines for usual tasks are included as follows.

  • replacing text
  • splitting text with a delimiter
  • joinning as a list of texts with a delimiters
  • Converting styled text into plain text
  • exchanging new line characters
  • stripping blank spaces
  • formatting text
  • managing AppleScript's text item delimiters
1.8.2 -- 2007.07.05
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