Re: Hidden password entry in applescript
Re: Hidden password entry in applescript
- Subject: Re: Hidden password entry in applescript
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:44:46 -0400
On Jun 30, 2004, at 11:10 AM, Dave Balderstone wrote:
On Jun 30, 2004, at 12:16 AM, Graff wrote:
Using AppleScript Studio requires some pretty in-depth knowledge of
XCode and programming Mac OS applications.
I disagree.
A decent tutorial is all I needed to get going and produce a very
useful app. The AppleScript Studio training CD from VTC was all it
took for me to get going very quickly.
I wasn't implying that it was impossible to learn. You can do some
basic stuff quickly just by following some good tutorials, especially
if you have prior programming experience. However, once you get to a
certain point the curve gets a bit steeper. At some point you need to
start using some of the Cocoa classes to get certain stuff done and if
you are just a casual scripter that sort of stuff will take some work
to learn.
Of course, compared to most other development environments XCode,
Cocoa, AppleScript, and Interface Builder are a piece of cake to learn
and use. Those people who have done serious programming in C, C++,
Java, Pascal, Fortran, etc. will find it fairly easy to transition
over.
IMHO AppleScript Studio is very nice and good for most simple programs.
However, even though you can make some pretty involved applications
with AppleScript Studio, I would rather switch over to Cocoa, Carbon,
Java or other lower-level languages for the bigger applications. You
will be using pretty much the same environment and classes with these
languages as you would with AppleScript Studio but by using Cocoa et
al. you will be utilizing a much richer language that is designed to do
complex programming. You will also benefit from generally faster code
execution.
- Ken
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