Re: Calling OSX AppleScript from Classic Apps
Re: Calling OSX AppleScript from Classic Apps
- Subject: Re: Calling OSX AppleScript from Classic Apps
- From: Geoff Canyon <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 17:59:05 -0700
On Saturday, July 5, 2003, at 01:09 AM, George Anten wrote:
Does it have any significant benefits over REALBasic?
Each has their strengths.
For HyperCard users, Revolution is a much more familiar development
metaphor, and imports HyperCard stacks.
For AppleScript users, Revolution supports the execution of arbitrary
AppleScripts -- build a string and tell Revolution to run it as an
AppleScript. On the other side of that, REALbasic can also run
arbitrary AppleScripts with somewhat more effort. REALbasic has (I
believe) somewhat better support for Apple Events, if you want to work
at that level.
For general purposes, Revolution is a runtime environment where code is
compiled as soon as it is saved -- there is no wait to test. Revolution
has far superior string handling abilities. Revolution's language is
higher-level, meaning you generally write less code to get something
done. If anyone's curious I can give examples.
Almost forgot -- Revolution is all-you-can-eat: the $299 Small Business
Edition entitles you to develop or deploy on any platform Revolution
supports. Revolution is licensed per developer. You can have Revolution
up and running on as many machines as you need to work with.
Finally, in addition to Mac and Windows, Revolution supports Linux,
BSD, Solaris, and several other Unix platforms. REALbasic supports Mac
and Windows.
regards,
Geoff Canyon
email@hidden
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