Re: Dashboard - Applescripts in web pages?
Re: Dashboard - Applescripts in web pages?
- Subject: Re: Dashboard - Applescripts in web pages?
- From: James Dessart <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:33:47 -0400
On 4/25/05, Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden> wrote:
> Here's the documentation:
> <http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/dashboard.html>. A small reason for
> hope appears to be buried in this: "[...] JavaScript [...] The widget object
> gives you the ability to [...] Execute system commands, such as shell scripts
> or command-line tools" In theory that might open a route to use AS. But
> having to call AS from a shell, which in turn is called through javascript,
> might not be such a great experience...
My hope would be that, at the very least, there are hooks to call
native methods, such as objective-C or plain C functions. Because for
anyone who wants to do a widget with some serious backend work it'd be
pretty inconvenient to have to write an executable to do the work, and
have it return data only through stdout.
We'll see on Friday, I guess.
--
James Dessart
Blog: http://skwirl.net/
Software dev. services: http://skwirl.com/
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