Re: Most Scriptable Apps (was: Can a script receive AppleEvents?)
Re: Most Scriptable Apps (was: Can a script receive AppleEvents?)
- Subject: Re: Most Scriptable Apps (was: Can a script receive AppleEvents?)
- From: Peter Fine <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:09:57 -0500
on 11/14/00 5:17 PM, Shane Stanley at email@hidden wrote:
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On 15/11/00 8:49 AM +1000, Peter Fine, email@hidden, wrote:
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> The second most-scriptable app is BBEdit 6
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Ahem. I use BBEdit 6, and it's scripting is much improved. It's
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attachability is *very* impressive, and its recordability is well
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implemented. But it's still far from a full object-model implementation.
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Of course it's difficult to weigh one feature against another, but IMO, to
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suggest that an application that does not support whose clauses for _any_ of
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its classes is the second-most-scriptable app in existence is, well, just
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not true.
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I'd also quibble with the earlier assertion, but at least I'd allow more
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room for opinion there.
Thank you, I'm sure. I'm always pleased to be allowed to have an opinion.
"most scriptable app" is hardly quantifiable and perhaps not even objective,
given the absence of any agreed-upon standards. I was thinking in terms of
attachable/embeddable. BBEdit 6, Creator2 and perhaps others support
attaching scripts to menu commands. In Script Debugger 2 and (I think) Style
one can attach a script to the "application" object. So far as I know,
however, Smile is the only app that supports the attachment of scripts to
substantially all of its objects.
I did not mean to compare the overall usefulness of scripting
implementations, or the degree to which a scripting implementation adheres
to the AEOM. I don't mean to question the importance of "whose" clause
support (BBEdit 6 does support them, BTW), but that's not what I was talking
about.
I would very much like to compile a list of apps that support attachment
beyond a script menu.
Nominations gratefully received.
(Don't get me wrong, script menus are terrific. It's just that in the
AppleScript explosion of the last year or two they have become very common.)
Peter