Re: [appscript] looking for feedback
Re: [appscript] looking for feedback
- Subject: Re: [appscript] looking for feedback
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:51:54 +0100
Emmanuel wrote:
>When you feel curious about the internals of AppleScript, you may want to use AppleEventData.osax, an excellent osax by Lyomei Sakai [1], for instance:
>
>set x to {name:"Mark", Question:"How does AS"}
>do AEFlattenDesc x
>--> dle2
>does AS
Neat. Won't really tell you anything about AS's internals [1], but should show you some interesting stuff about Apple events, which is often the thing folks are really interested in anyway. Another educational aid is turning on AEDebug in Terminal (there's a drag-n-drop applet on my site that'll do this for you) and watching Apple event traffic to and from scriptable apps as you run your scripts. And if you're really curious as to the deeper nature of Apple events, Apple provide a fair bit of documentation for the Carbon Apple Event Manager API at:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Carbon-date.html>
Inveterate tinkerers might also consider playing around with Python, which provides a range of open-source AEM-wrappers you can poke about in and experiment with (Carbon.AE, aem, appscript).
has
[1] Though nothing much short of a pit, a hose and a captive AppleScript engineer will. ("It tells me how the interpreter works, or it gets the hose again...")
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