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Re: AppleScript/Xcode/Interfacebuilder book to recommend?
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Re: AppleScript/Xcode/Interfacebuilder book to recommend?


  • Subject: Re: AppleScript/Xcode/Interfacebuilder book to recommend?
  • From: Brian Johnson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 22:12:20 -0800 (PST)


It isn't all that hard (cough, cough). I haven't done this with Xcode, but I used Project-Builder and ASStudio to port an app that used to depend on Dialog Director. Once I got the hang of it, it went quite well. Basically, you use IB to set up the graphics, establish names for text fields (etc), and bind the clickable interface components to AS handlers in your script. The script can use the names to do things like


  set contents of text field "appName" to software_version

to display text, and so on. I made good progress by tearing apart the example apps from the Dev distribution. Having said that, there *are* some odd things -- you use IB to edit the NIB to enable "on lauch" and "on open" kinds of things, and many of the IB menus and tools don't really apply to AS apps (at least, *I* couldn't figure out what to do with them). If one of our new books tackles this environment, it would be *really* nice, but I think you can manage without...

  - brian johnson, dept of architecture, university of washington


On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, jean.luc.bouchard wrote:

Hi everyone,

Just a quick question that I am sure has been covered many times...

I'm starting to use Xcode to build AppleScript applications instead of
ScriptEditor.  My major reason for doing so is to get access to
InterfaceBuilder to develop a more complex UI for my apps.

Would anyone have a book to recommend that would talk about what it takes to
build AppleScript applications as part of Xcode/Interface builder?

Thanks in advance for the response

Cheers

JL.


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