Scripting Additions Guide

APPENDIX
Scripting Additions at a Glance
110 Placeholders
Placeholders A
Table A-2 explains the placeholders used in the syntax descriptions in
this appendix.
Table A-2 Placeholders used in syntax descriptions
Placeholder Explanation
Boolean An expression that evaluates to true or false.
buttonList A list of strings, each of which represents a button in
a dialog box. The maximum number of characters
in each string is 255. You can specify up to three
buttons.
className A class identifier or an expression that evaluates to
an object class identifier.
dataToWrite Data of an appropriate type to be written to a
specified file.
delimiters String or constant specifying a delimiter, or a
two-item list of strings or constants.
dialogString A string of up to 255 characters.
folderOrApplication One of these constants: apple menu, apple menu
items, control panels, desktop, extensions,
preferences, printmonitor, printmonitor
documents, trash, startup items, system
folder, temporary items, startup disk,
frontmost application.
integer An expression that evaluates to an integer.
listOfParameters A list of parameters to be passed to the target’s
Run handler.
listOfTypes A list of strings, each of which is a four-character file
type code that identifies a particular type, such as
"TEXT", "APPL", "PICT", or "PNTG".
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