Re: AppleScript seems to be Unique...
Re: AppleScript seems to be Unique...
- Subject: Re: AppleScript seems to be Unique...
- From: "Neal A. Crocker" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 11:01:01 -0700
Check out Window Script Host (sometimes WSH), which is a standard
part of Windows 2000/NT and optionally available (or standard part?)
for Windows 95/98. Look at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/windowshost/default.htm or do a
Google search for "Windows Script Host".
Neal.
Message: 17
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 12:26:56 +0200
From: Alexander Schrieken <email@hidden>
Subject: AppleScript seems to be Unique...
To: email@hidden
Hi all,
A couple of days ago I asked the list how unique
AppleScript was, and if Windows-users e.g. have
access to a similar utility.
The number of reactions to that question was
absolutely minimal (two). This could be
(A)
because there is no way Windows-users can do the
same things AppleScript let's Mac-users do, or
(B)
because the subscribers to this list are simply
unaware of the features that Windows offers in
this respect.
The first explanation seems most likely since the
only thing I could find that vaguely resembles
AppleScript is 'KiXtart' (<http://www.kixtart.org/
helpdesk/>, I was made aware of it's existence by
Monk). This program seems to be limited to
controlling the operating system however, and
would be comparable to AppleScript only if it was
limited to automating the Finder.
To our benefit AppleScript can also automate other
applications and even make them work together,
thus providing Mac-users with an unmatched
potential for system integration and workflow
automation.
The key to this feature seems to be the fact that
Apple provides a common scripting language for all
applications -- or at least the basis of it. I
suspect developers of Windows-applications don't
have this luxury, and must create some proprietory
macro-system if they want to offer the user the
ability to automate the program. Developers might
use the same macro-system in all of their
products, but that won't do much for integration
with other applications -- unless they're called
MicroSoft maybe.
Am I wrong?
Alexander
The Netherlands