Re: Another appleScript WIKI question
Re: Another appleScript WIKI question
- Subject: Re: Another appleScript WIKI question
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:16:28 -0700
At 1:30 PM -0700 4/12/06, Stockly, Ed wrote:
>Lately someone posted this in the section on Open Scripting Architecture:
>
>"Under Mac OS X, the JavaScript OSA component remains the only serious OSA language alternative to AppleScript, though the Macintosh versions of Perl, Python, Ruby, and Tcl all support native means of working with AppleEvents without being OSA components."
This sounds accurate to me.
>Is this correct? Is this the correct terminology? Is OSA still the model for scripting in Mac OS X and is JavaScript the only "serious" OSA language alternative to AppleScript?
OSA is the layer for playing with the script editors and runners. You can run any "osas" script file via OSA, and if you wanted to put perl or python into a script file for running from an AppleScript script menu or palette, then you'd need an OSA version of perl or python to do that, and there ain't one.
However, that's not something that anyone seems too concerned with. Instead, they've all been more concerned about driving applications via Apple Events, and parsing dictionaries to determine terminologies and present object browsers. They then use their own textual script format to store their scripts, as they always have, libraries of code (typically c++) to munge AppleEvents and their own executables to run those scripts.
>Are there other OSA alternatives that are not "serious"? Would they be considered "comedic", "trivial" or "frivolous"?
I believe Wayne's Ebonics dialect qualifies as frivolous, comedic and offensive. Luckily not many people saw it and it undoubtedly doesn't work on OS X.
Jon
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