Re: AS verbosity and ease(?) of learning
Re: AS verbosity and ease(?) of learning
- Subject: Re: AS verbosity and ease(?) of learning
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 09:49:21 -0400
On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 06:45 AM, has wrote:
Lachlan Deck wrote:
There's plenty of
AS-specific books telling you how to open folders, but not one - as
far
as I know - that introduces algorithms, OOP, etc.
Yes, this was my frustration - how on earth...as the dictionary's
references were far from helpful at times.
App/osax dictionaries - worst place imaginable for learning _how to do_
anything. To be fair, I don't think they were ever designed with this in
mind - but it's still a great pity they weren't.
Let us hope that all those mysterious NDA'd developments to AppleScript
that were announced at the WWDC include the joyful news that the
current,
restricted, overdue-for-retirement dictionary format is _finally_ on its
way out, to be replaced by something Shiny New that can include
summaries,
extended descriptions, code examples, etc, etc. and all the other stuff
that'd make dictionaries _Incredibly Useful_.
Like an XML-based replacement for terminology resources?
from
http://developer.apple.com/wwdc2002/descriptions.html
106 - AppleScript Update
After ten years, it's time to make waves with AppleScript. What you've
been waiting for is about to happen: a new plug-in architecture to
replace OSAXen, support for scriptable application plug-ins, an
all-Unicode parser, an XML-based replacement for terminology
resources, and finally, an easy-to-use replacement for the
ObjectSupportLib. Whether you're writing scriptable applications or
are just a novice scripter, don't miss this session.
--
Paul Skinner
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