Re: The future for AppleScript
Re: The future for AppleScript
- Subject: Re: The future for AppleScript
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:24:45 +0000
Martin Orpen wrote:
> And what do you think the simplest way for an ISV to provide hooks for
Automator is going to be?
Well, if you've got a choice of two methods and you've written the app in
whatever-C then I doubt that you're going to bother inserting an AppleScript
Automator Action when you can see Cocoa Automator Action sitting below it.
You're confusing 'AppleScript' for 'Apple events'. Apple events are
the main high-level inter-application communication mechanism on the
Mac. AppleScript, despite popular misconception, is only one of many
AE clients - there are plenty of other languages and applications
that use them too. (i.e. Even if AppleScript vanished tomorrow,
AE-based IAC and application scripting would carry on much as before.)
ObjC, Perl and Python all have solid support for both Cocoa and Apple
events already, so there's absolutely no reason why Action developers
shouldn't write Cocoa-based actions that use Apple events to control
running applications. For example, I certainly plan on writing
Python+PyObjC+appscript based Actions that'll control scriptable
applications with nary an AppleScript in sight. :)
has
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