Re: AppleScript
Re: AppleScript
- Subject: Re: AppleScript
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:45:47 -0600
- Thread-topic: AppleScript
On 12/09/2007 01:12 AM, "Philip Aker" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Škeeping up with Apple's actions to make OSA more language-neutral.
>
>
> I am a great fan of resource forks and the Resource Manager. However,
> WRT to this topic, I believe it would be a good step to move the
> Component Description out of the resource fork and into the bundle's
> Info.plist.
>
> Another thing that would really help to promote the state of affairs
> is to have a full fledged example component. The only thing that's
> available now comes from about 15 years ago, is written in Pascal,
> and is buried deep in obsolete SDKs. I in fact didn't know about the
> example until a few years after I'd written my OSA components.
Oh no doubt. There is a lot Apple needs to do with regard to sending a good,
clear message on how scripting needs to be done, with examples that apply
*today*.
It would be even better to start showing examples using not just
AppleScript, but the other languages supported by the Scripting Bridge.
--
There is no limit to the good you can do if you don't care who gets the
credit.
-General George C. Marshall
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