Re: Bounding Rectangle [and data type Rect]
Re: Bounding Rectangle [and data type Rect]
- Subject: Re: Bounding Rectangle [and data type Rect]
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:30:35 EDT
Paul,
If you're getting into true application scripting through
the use of AppleScript Studio (to do things like drawing
shapes, generate floating windows, general
beyond-the-scope-of-just-a-script stuff), then I would
highly suggest grabbing either Inside Macintosh series, or
at least a beginning primer in Macintosh application
programming (pick whatever programming language you are
already familiar with other than AS). Studio promised to be
a true app compiler, in which case it probably exploits
most of the same global mac-toolbox routines as any other
full development suite (vs. exploiting other app's
dictionaries and OSAXEN).
If I stop and think about it, AS Studio is probably a C
code generator with traditional AppleScript support, and a
mixed compiler to merge the codes into stand-alone apps.
Either that, or if you have any C experience, consider
creating your main apps in C, since it is the core language
for UNIX... In which case you can write really cool OSAXEN
for the 'rest of us.'
Speaking of which, does OS X ship with it's own C compiler
(anyone know?)?
=-= Marc Glasgow
Paul Wrote:
>
I'm dipping into AppleScript Studio, whose dictionary is
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both enormous and currently quite bare of definitions. You
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get the syntax, with almost no real definitions. 'bounds'
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are properties of quite a lot of objects there, and I
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wanted to make sure i had the ordering right, and to check
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whether it's four separate integers in one list or two
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pairs of two-member lists, etc. If the ASLG is prepared to
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define 'integer', 'string' 'list', it should not be beyond
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its attention to also define 'bounding rectangle' and all
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other data types it uses, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
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