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The 'tell ...' menu


What is the 'tell ...' menu for ?

The 'tell ...' menu lets you link the front (script or text) window to an application.
Once a window has a target application, it sends by default all commands to the application. This avoids in particular the use of the "tell" ... "end tell" clause.
When a window is linked to an application, the 'Find definition' menu command will search the selected term in the application's dictionary, before searching the scripting additions and eventually AppleScript's dialect. The same thing is true for the Balance command.

How do I use the 'tell ...' menu ?

The "tell ..." item of the "Edit" menu brings to front the "Choose application" dialog box. This dialog box lists all applications currently running, on your machine or on the network it is connected to. Choose any application.
A new menu appears at the bottom of the window, with the name of the target application.
This menu allows:
- to open the dictionary of the target application. Linking a window to the application (provided it is running), then using this menu is often quicker than browsing in the 'Open dictionary' chooser to find the application file.
- to copy and translate as compiled source (in other terms, as raw codes) portions of the script (a part of a solution for the portability problems)
- to logout, i.e. to terminate the link to the targeted application.

More info ...

For more details about linking windows to apps, see Linking windows to apps .
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