[OS X TeX] TeXShop macro "Select class options"

[Curtis Clifton]

Will,

On Aug 30, 2004, at 4:54 AM, Will Robertson wrote:

> On 30 Aug 2004, at 6:17 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>> Could you use the "try ... on error ..." construct to help?
>>
>> <snip *really* helpful advice>
>>
>> Errors can include other information, too, like a reference to the 
>> object that caused the failure; check the Applescript doc for more 
>> information. I believe you can also do things like nest "try" blocks, 
>> re-throw an error from within the error handler if you want to pass 
>> it up the chain, etc.
>
> Yes! That sounds excellent. In fact, I'm amazed how good that looks.
> That documentation however - unless its been updated in Xcode 1.5 - is 
> pretty awful for looking/searching through. (Unless, also, I'm meant 
> to be looking elsewhere than the Applescript Language Guide - last 
> updated 1999!) Not to worry - I'll keep looking.
>
> What you've given me works better than I would have dreamed. Thanks 
> heaps!
>

You might enjoy AppleScript, The Definitive Guide from O'Reilly.  It's 
far better than any of the online documentation that I've found, 
covering many of the gotchas with AppleScript.

Curt

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Curtis Clifton, PhD Candidate
Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cclifton

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