Re: System Events in 10.2 - what's the deal, Chris
Re: System Events in 10.2 - what's the deal, Chris
- Subject: Re: System Events in 10.2 - what's the deal, Chris
- From: Rob Jorgensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 21:42:14 -0400
On 9/26/02, Mr Tea commented:
After I observed in the 'Seybold Keynote' thread that System Events could
"manipulate files without scripting the Finder", it was pointed out to me
off-list that Mr Nebel had warned us off using it.
What Chris actually said (back in February) was "If you address System
Events directly, you're putting yourself at risk of breaking in the future,
should we decide to move/rearrange/destroy System Events. Not that we have
any immediate plans to do so, but you never know."
Is that still emphatically the case, Chris? The release notes for AS 1.9
seem guardedly optimistic about SE's future, even going so far as to promote
it's use for setting system preferences (when available), and as an
alternative to the Finder when scripting restarts and shut downs.
What's the purpose behind offering a 'Disk-Folder-File Suite' for
'controlling Disks, Folders, and Files' if it's not to be used?
Insatiably curious, as ever.
Not a Chris, but quoting one of them:
At 12:44 PM -0700 8/22/02, Christopher Nebel wrote:
P.S.: Mr. Berkowitz is probably scratching his head about now that I
just suggested talking directly to System Events, since I've said in
the past that you're not really supposed to know it exists. Well,
yes, I did say that, but I'm retracting it. Talking directly to
System Events is the only way to get access to certain features,
such as the "classic" property for processes in 10.1, and more to
appear in Jaguar. The Finder "process" class only supports the
stuff it did in Mac OS 9, and will never do anything else -- that's
sort of what "legacy" means.
This was taken from a post to the applescript-studio list.
--
Rob Jorgensen
Ohio, USA
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