简介：notes and observations on mac os x 10.4

原站：http://daringfireball.net/misc/2005/04/tiger_details

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Press-and-Hold for Dashboard and Exposé Keyboard Sh

The usual, or at least obvious, way to use the keyboard shortcuts for semi-modal features like Exposé and Dashboard is:Hit the key. (E.g. F12 for Dashboard.)Use the mode.Hit the key again when you’re done.It ends up there’s a second way to use these shortcuts: press-and-hold:Press and hold the key down.Use the mode.Release the key when you’re ... (316 天前)

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Pass Command-Line Arguments to AppleScript Scripts

The command-line osascript tool allows you to execute Applescript scripts from the command-line. In Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.3, the only argument you could pass to osascript was the script to execute. In Tiger, you can now pass along arguments to pass to the script itself. From the osascript man page:Any arguments following the script will be passed as... (316 天前)

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Built-In Support for Advanced OpenType Features

Mac OS X has long supported built-in support for advanced typographic features — e.g. genuine small caps, automatic ligatures, old-style figures, etc. — in AAT fonts. AAT stands for Apple Advanced Typography, and several of these fonts ship with Mac OS X, including Hoefler Text, Didot, and Zapfino.Apps that use ATSUI (Apple Type Services for Unicode I... (316 天前)

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WaitingForLoginWindow

Recall from an earlier entry in this list that during the boot process, Mac OS X no longer displays status messages telling you which processes are starting when. It ends up that in Tiger, the progress bar you see while booting is a complete sham — it’s just something to look at while you’re waiting for the loginwindow process to start. (Cf. Charles M... (316 天前)

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Cosmetic Improvements to AppleScript Dialog Boxes

The various dialog boxes provided by the User Interaction suite defined in the Standard Additions OSAX have all received cosmetic, and in some cases functional, improvements.For example, consider the display dialog command. Here’s a short example that simulates the error dialog from my PHP Syntax Checking script for BBEdit:tell application "BBEdit" s... (316 天前)

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Extraneous Returns Stripped From Text Pasted Into Si

As noted by Pierre Igot on his weblog: For a long time, when I was filling out Web forms in Safari, I had to deal with the fact that, when I had copied text from another application and tried to paste it into a single-line text entry field in the Web form, if I had accidentally included the return character at the end of the line of text in the sele... (316 天前)

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Widgets Only Use Standard Font Smoothing

No matter which style of font smoothing you’ve chosen in theAppearance panel of System Preferences, Dashboard Widgets alwaysrender text using “Standard” font smoothing. This means if you’vechosen Light, Medium, or Strong font smoothing (or if you’ve chosenAutomatic and are using a flat panel display, in which case the systemuses Medium), text l... (316 天前)

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