Re: bug #18283 / change "Enable applescript in NextStep"

[David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>]

Anders, 
Thank you.  That sounds like a good change then, but I needed your explanation to understand.

- David


> On Nov 25, 2015, at 12:44 AM, Anders Lindgren <andlind@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This change allows applescripts like the following to work:
> 
>     tell application "Emacs"
>          set the bounds of the first window to {100, 100, 500, 500}
>     end tell
> 
> Without the change, the following error message is issued:
> 
>     test.oas:23:89: execution error: Emacs got an error: Can’t set bounds of window 1 to {100, 100, 500, 500}. (-10006)
> 
> However, after the change, Emacs repositions and resizes its frame nicely.
> 
> 
> So,  the reporter of bug #18283 literally requested this change, but I think that may have just been a somewhat silly way to say:  “Can you please support AppleScript?”
> 
> But perhaps I’m misunderstanding all of this and there’s a grand master plan.
> 
> The original poster asked for this change in order to write automatic tests for the NextStep user interface. Concretely, it was used to verify that the recent problems with tool-bar-mode setting the wrong frame size was solved. I am absolutely sure that he did not implicitly expected a full AppleScript interface to be implemented.
> 
>     -- Anders Lindgren
>