Re: Another appleScript WIKI question
Re: Another appleScript WIKI question
- Subject: Re: Another appleScript WIKI question
- From: Daniel Jalkut <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:16:13 -0400
On Apr 12, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Jon Pugh wrote:
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.
Your point is well made - that a script must comply with OSA to be
readily runnable by an arbitrary script runner.
But Apple's global script menu is not a good example of that
limitation, since it actually does handle Perl and other She-Bang
type shell scripts, as well as applications, automator actions, even
documents.
FastScripts also handles a variety of non-OSA-compliant formats - the
UNIX underpinnings make it pretty easy to do so, though those most of
those languages lack native support for AppleEvent dispatch, which is
what makes AppleScript so fun.
Daniel
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