[Pythonmac-SIG] appscript terminology caching

[Bob Ippolito]

On Oct 20, 2004, at 18:37, steve harley wrote:

> on 18 Oct 2004, at 3:21 AM, Jack Jansen wrote:
>>
>> On 18 Oct 2004, at 00:47, Eric Nieuwland wrote:
>>
>>> A small question to all you gurus on this topic.
>>>
>>> How will the caching system handle updates to an application of 
>>> which the terminology is cached?
>>
>> That's one of the problems we're trying to sort out. Has wants to do 
>> it automatically whereas Bob and myself seem to tend towards a more 
>> manual solution, whereby the script writer somehow explicitly 
>> triggers it.
>
> one small consideration to add: some apps update their terminology 
> without a version change.. the means i have in mind is that some 
> XTensions to QuarkXPress (4.x, at least) would dynamically extend the 
> dictionary when the app launched.. the new terminology could only be 
> obtained when the app was running, not from parsing the AETE in the 
> resource fork.. i don't  how or whether this situation has changed 
> with Mac OS X versions of XPress or other apps.. Frontier did a parse 
> of the static AETE, and so i had to hand add entries to the glue 
> table, but if the AETE API that appscript uses ensures that dynamic 
> entries are returned to queries, then i guess this isn't an issue

appscript shouldn't be reading anything directly from resources, so 
that's not an issue.  However, if appscript gets ahold of the 
QuarkXPress aete before it's loaded all of its extensions (which might 
happen if appscript does the launching, I guess), then you have an 
issue.

-bob