A Voice from the Old Europe

[Helmut Jäcklein]

Thanks David, thanks Jan,

DuckTape did it. What i am missing are some functions like 'get' and 'set'. But presumably, i have to copy them from the old glue.


"Jan M.J. Storms" schrieb:
> 
> I believe Sean Elfstrom's DuckTape tool does the trick:
> 
> <http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/wa/default?
> user=selfstro&templatefn=FileSharing.
> html&xmlfn=TKDocument.1.xml&sitefn=RootSite.xml&aff=consumer&cty=US&lang=en>
> 
> David A. Bayly scripsit dd. Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:50:38 +0000
> 
> >Hi Helmut,
> >
> >Glue Factory doesn't work on OS X, and there's not much prospect of
> >it doing so, because the ability to read script dictionaries from
> >packages  is not available in Frontier  I'd like to have a working
> >glue making suite too.
> >
> >That said, I recall somebody on the Frontier OS X email list talking
> >about this a while back. Try a search of the archives of that list
> >for glue.
> >
> >
> >>Dear Mr. Winer, hi all,
> >>i am one of the old-fashioned guys who is still using frontier as an
> >>excellent scripting environment. I have written a lot of scripts for
> >>QuarkXPress 3 and 4.
> >>
> >>But now, i get troubles when i have to use QuarkXPress 5/6 on MacOS
> >>X. There is no chance to build a glue-table of QuarkXPress 5/6 any
> >>more. The Commercial Suite is totally out of time. Even David Bayly
> >>does'nt draw attention to his glueFactory no more. Does he?
> >>
> >>What shall i do? Would you really recommend me to use AppleScript? I
> >>don't wanna do that!
> >>
> >>Please, please Dave, do'nt leave me alone! :-(
> >>
> >>Helmut
> >
> >
> >--
> >
> >- David Bayly.       Programmer and digest reader.     dbayly at udena dot ch
> >               Digest Readers do it once a day.
> >
> 
> Jan Storms


Helmut