Re: [Q] What are your favorite OS X Scripting Additions?
Re: [Q] What are your favorite OS X Scripting Additions?
- Subject: Re: [Q] What are your favorite OS X Scripting Additions?
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 13:49:39 +0100
Graff wrote on Sat, 01 May 2004 12:25:40 -0400:
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Honestly I don't use anything for AppleScript but a standard, plain
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install of AppleScript and what comes with the operating system. This
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is not because I think that the 3rd-party scripting additions are no
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good, on the contrary some are excellent, it's for portability reasons.
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I don't want to work on an AppleScript and then move it somewhere else
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or give it out only to forget that I also need x, y, and z scripting
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additions. Plus the very nature of scripting additions is that you
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start to think of them as being a part of the base AppleScript. It
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becomes tougher to advise someone on AppleScripting since you now have
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additional commands that they don't have and you might not remember
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that they were additions.
Many people also fail to remember that what they're posting is only
possible with the latest version of AppleScript or with the beta version
of the next. ;-) But basically I agree. In pre-X days, when there were
more third-party OSAXen in use, scripters often forgot the provenance of
commands they were using. It was even more common to forget - or not even
to be aware - that a third-party OSAX was providing non-standard
coercions on their own machines.
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When it comes down to it I haven't met many situations where I did need
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a scripting addition in order to do a scripting task. Between
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AppleScript, the Apple-supplied scripting additions, applications, and
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the shell environment I am able to cover just about any scripting need
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that I have.
I still don't have much use for OS X at the moment, only using it to
check the current validity of scripts and to run Safari. Third-party
additions do seem to be less necessary, but I'm sure there's still a
niche for them to perform specialised tasks very quickly and
conveniently. I've installed Jon's Commands because it's been so useful
in the past, and Satimage because it could be useful in the future.
Apple now seems to be actively discouraging the use of OSAXen - or even
applications for that matter - by making dictionary navigation in Script
Editor a complete obstacle course.
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On May 1, 2004, at 10:17 AM, trinko wrote:
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> I'm wondering what scripting additions you folks find most useful.
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> thanks.
GetMilliSec. :-) I don't use it in finished scripts, but it's great for
testing their behaviour while I'm writing them.
NG
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