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.

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

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.

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