Re: Migrating scripting additions to Mac OS X
Re: Migrating scripting additions to Mac OS X
- Subject: Re: Migrating scripting additions to Mac OS X
- From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 22:39:25 -0500
On 6/25/2001 5:54 PM, "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 26/6/01 3:41 AM +1000, Jolly Roger, email@hidden, wrote:
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> I don't see anything preventing scripting addition authors from updating
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> their scripting additions to run on Mac OS X. One of the easiest, fastest
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> ways to do so is to convert the scripting addition to into a carbonised
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> scriptable application.
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Turning them into apps is not really updating them -- it's, well, turning
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them into apps. I can see the pluses (and the minuses), which have been done
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near to death here before.
Let me ask you this: How much of an impact has the fact that URL Access
Scripting is an application had on you? :) Do you dwell on it every time
you use it? Do you even think about it? Me? Nope. I just use it, and it
works fine. My point is that scriptable applications are a perfectly viable
medium for extending AppleScript, arguably a better medium than scripting
additions - and you can use that medium NOW in Mac OS X.
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To update them to OS X scripting additions, according to the developers I've
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spoken to, is not yet fully documented. Maybe that's what's holding many of
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them back.
Why do that when it's easier just to turn them into scriptable apps? I can
see that SOME AS extensions are better off being scripting additions; but
only a few.