Re: AppleScript Studio
Re: AppleScript Studio
- Subject: Re: AppleScript Studio
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 21:13:13 -0400
on 9/25/01 2:21 PM, Roger Howard wrote:
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From the keynote this morning I gathered that there is a new product,
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AppleScript Studio, out by the end of year. Aside from speculation can anyone
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comment on what we can expect? Is this the realization of the OSX AppleScript
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Pro rumors from some time ago, that AppleScript would be repositioned as a
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more professional, developer-friendly technology after the initial migration
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to OSX?
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I'm very excited by this - but should I be, or did Apple buy Scripter or some
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other existing product and repackage it as AppleScript Studio? And did they
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REALLY give us a product with such a glorious acronym, ASS?
That is going to require a lot of typing to avoid. : P
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:)
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Roger Howard
It looks like AppleScript Studio is an implementation of Project Builder.
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Apple9s integrated development environment for Mac OS X, Project Builder
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provides project editing, search and navigation, file editing, project
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building and debugging facilities for all types of Mac OS X software projects.
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It9s designed to facilitate development of applications, tools, frameworks,
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libraries, plug-in bundles, kernel extensions and device drivers. Project
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Builder supports developers using C, C++, Objective C, AppleScript and Java.
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Project Builder works with numerous other tools available with Mac OS X, such
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as the Interface Builder user interface construction application; compilers
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such as gcc, javac and jikes; and debuggers such as gdb.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/whatyoucando/projectbuilder.html
When talking with the AppleScript team in March, they asked what we
wanted to see implemented in AppleScript most. After the obligatory march
through bug fixes, list and text functions, and the like Interface widgets
was a big request. The response from the team was 'You can do that with
interface builder in 10'. Not exactly what I wanted to hear then.
Beautifully packaged solutions is what I look for from Apple, not parts.
It looks like they took the interface builder and Project Builder apps
and integrated them to make AppleScript Studio.
I can't imagine a better thing for AppleScript than to give it a free,
robust, full featured IDE on a modern OS. Make this easily available to
every user and you might have a real winner.
Now, can I get that in five fruity colors?
: )
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Paul Skinner