Re: OSAX on X
Re: OSAX on X
- Subject: Re: OSAX on X
- From: "Ray Barber" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 18:21:25 -0500
At the expense of starting up another no-end thread. >:)
I too, had the shivers about 'just where' Applescript was headed. Obviously
this included osaxen and how that technology would be implemented.
To peek your interest, check out the news cover on macscripter.net. <g>
Cheers
Ray
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garrett wrote:
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>Is it me or is there like this unmentionable black hole where OSAX's use to
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>be... What are there like maybe 8 or 10 on X? What's going on with this
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>functionality? Any one have a clue as to why more developers haven't
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>implimented X versions of their OSAX's?
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<shrug> Waiting for OS X to settle down? Difficulty/time/expense of
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porting?Lack of user support? Not enough personal/financial reward? Other
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priorities: jobs, families, etc? Or even just plain not interested?
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>SO much has been crippled as a
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>result...
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I dunno. I realised a year ago that an overdependence on osaxen would lead
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to trouble sooner or later as things started heading Xwards. So I started
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weaning myself off osaxen and onto vanilla libraries wherever possible.
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While there's quite a lot things that you just can't do from vanilla AS at
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all, it's also surprising the number of everyday things that you can. And
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how little the performance can often change as a result of moving from osax
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call to vanilla handler call. And how quickly you learn to write code that
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doesn't totally honk when there's no longer anyone else there to provide
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any of those functions for you. I've gotten to be a much better scripter
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once I got over the initial Akua withdrawal symptoms.:)
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<wistful>
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Now, if only there was the level of support for AS libraries as exists for
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Perl...
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</wistful>
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:p
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>Or is the reason infinitely darker: apple has broken things again...
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I wouldn't have thought so. [Occam's Razor]
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If anything, I'm kinda glad there hasn't been many osaxen appearing on X.
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Now I'm just hoping to heck the new plugin architecture is such that it
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puts an end to some of the more unwelcome habits of osaxen: installing
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silent-but-deadly coercions and smooshy namespace keyword collisions. It
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would be a chance to start afresh, and Do Things Right. Fingers crossed, eh?
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has
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