Re: OSAX on X
Re: OSAX on X
- Subject: Re: OSAX on X
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 22:26:23 -0400
On Thursday, May 23, 2002, at 06:56 PM, has wrote:
Snip
If anything, I'm kinda glad there hasn't been many osaxen appearing on
X.
Now I'm just hoping to heck the new plugin architecture is such that it
puts an end to some of the more unwelcome habits of osaxen: installing
silent-but-deadly coercions and smooshy namespace keyword collisions. It
would be a chance to start afresh, and Do Things Right. Fingers
crossed, eh?
has
Have you read this yet?
from http://macscripter.net/
[5-23-2002] Improved AppleScript in Jaguar Revealed during AppleScript
Pro Sessions with special guest speakers, and T.J. Mahaffey gets the
dirt on some of the things in store for the 10.2 Mac OS X. After a full
week in Monterey, and a little fact checking and proper authorization,
the new tradition of a more revealing and open Apple brings us
information about the future of AppleScript. Sal Soghoian was present
during the sessions, and Chris Espinosa also gave a presentation with
the latest, official AppleScript news: AppleScript 1.8.3 for MacOS 9
and MacOS X will be released as soon as trouble with the staging server
is resolved and a few known bugs are confirmed squashed (or at least
trapped). Speech recognition is scriptable again, and significant
scripting improvements are in store for the Finder, Mail, Apple System
Profile, PrintCenter, Terminal, QuickTime Player, all Cocoa apps, plus
new scripting for System Preferences and some Preferences Panels, as
well as Address Book. The new plug-in model was discussed, and one of
the first plug-ins included with the next OS release will take the work
of folder and file manipulation away from the Finder and make it system
level.
um...wow.
Support for third-party plug-ins will be enabled in the operating
system release after 10.2. The AppleScript Team will continue to expand
the support for Web Services through SOAP and XML-RPC, to the point of
treating the WSDL dictionaries of network applications just like
AppleScript dictionaries. And AppleScript dictionaries themselves will
get an upgrade, contain example code, expanded documentation, and
expanded dictionaries models while maintaining the traditional
dictionary idea.
cool.*
Plus, AppleScript X still has a couple of great surprises hidden up its
sleeve as it permeates the Mac experience. Kudos, T.J., for your
on-the-scene reporting; kudos to Ray Robertson for the sessions; and
many kudos to all those at Apple for the tremendous AppleScript support.
* I bet that the technology employed is based on big hulking records. ;^)
--
Paul Skinner
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