Re: How about making System *Events* recordable?
Re: How about making System *Events* recordable?
- Subject: Re: How about making System *Events* recordable?
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:03:41 -0500
- Thread-topic: How about making System *Events* recordable?
On 8/17/05 01:37, "Andrew Oliver" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> The advantage, though, is that suddenly you have a master method for
>> recording any set of actions on a Mac, for scriptable and
>> nonscriptable apps alike.
>>
>> Is something like this possible? (And yes, I'm aware of third-party
>> macro applications that do this, but I'm thinking how cool this would
>> be within the AppleScript domain.)
>
> Personally, I think anything that extends the use of UI scripting is a bad
> thing.
>
> IMHO (no offense to the Apple guys who wrote it, but) I think UI scripting
> is a skanky hack designed to get around the inadequate support for
> AppleScript at the application level (and Apple apps are amongst the worst
> offenders).
>
> I'd rather developers don't get lazy under the pretence that System
> Events/UI scripting gives an acceptable level of scriptability/automation,
> and actually implemented working dictionaries.
>
> Unfortunately, sometimes I feel like I might be living a pipe dream.
Although it's getting better....SLOWLY...what he said. Double.
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