Re: AppleScript Studio and package contents
Re: AppleScript Studio and package contents
- Subject: Re: AppleScript Studio and package contents
- From: Charles Arthur <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:52:17 +0100
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:28:16 -0400, Rob Jorgensen <email@hidden> wrote:
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At 7:25 AM -0400 10/18/02, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
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>I missed the beginning of this thread. Do you want to know whether it is an
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>AS Studio app (whatever that is) just for purposes of putting a label on it?
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>Or is there some functional reason you need to know the answer? If the
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>latter, better to test for the functionality you need to distinguish.
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Yes, I just want to put a label on it. I only use "AppleScript Studio
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app" because that's the terminology that Apple uses on their web site.
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Thanks for the detailed explanation. :-)
Just to expand.. if you were to try creating an AStudio app, you'd discover
that they have a couple of default header (.h) and method (.m) files in
them anyway. Given that they're created in Project Builder, which can be
used to create pretty much any sort of app (from pure Carbon to pure Cocoa
to anything, just about, that'll run on OSX), I think you could be on a
hiding to nothing in trying even to *define* a "pure" AStudio app. What if
one of the scripts calls "do shell script"? Is that still a pure AStudio
app?
For example, lots of the ones floating around the net now use "call method"
Cocoa code with added .h and .m files created specifically by Tim
Bumgarner, the AStudio lead AScript engineer (or whatever) to get around
bugs in early versions of AStudio. Really, AStudio is just some frameworks
to link Applescript "methods" into Cocoa. The frameworks are accessed using
Project Builder.
AStudio is a neat piece of marketing, when one reflects on it. It really
just means "Hey, Applescript writers, you can create interfaces using Cocoa
objects and script them with Applescript." The fact that you don't actually
write any Cocoa to create the app doesn't mean there isn't Cocoa in the
app, so to speak.
GTG. There's free wine.
Charles
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