AppleMods Loader : The Next Generation
AppleMods Loader : The Next Generation
- Subject: AppleMods Loader : The Next Generation
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 01:21:00 +0100
Hi all,
After spending the last few years off slumming it in the Python, Ruby
and ObjC worlds, I've been feeling like exercising my AppleScript
muscles a bit. To this end, I've been doing a complete redesign and
rewrite of the module loading system I wrote for AppleMods back in
2003. This new design fixes the original system's various shortcomings
(non-standard packaging scheme, over-complicated interface, poor
compatibility with existing AppleScripts, inadequate documentation)
and brings the whole thing bang up-to-date for Mac OS X 10.4 and later.
For your interest and amusement, I have posted an initial preview
release here:
http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/AppleModsLoaderPreview1.zip
If you just want to dive in and give it a whirl, read the
ReadMeFirst.txt file for installation instructions, then go straight
to the LoaderTutorial.txt file which provides a simple four-step
introduction to using the new Loader system.
Questions, suggestions, brickbats, etc. to the usual place. I'm rather
busy with RL stuff at the moment, but will try to respond as best I can.
Cheers,
has
p.s. Please ignore any references to the AppleMods website (http://applemods.sourceforge.net
) that you may see in the new Loader documentation as none of the
modules currently on the AppleMods site will work with this new
version of Loader. I've been trying to email Gary Wood (the current
AppleMods maintainer) to discuss updating the site but haven't managed
to get hold of him yet. (With any luck he'll see this post and drop us
a note.) In the meantime, this preview release includes suitably
updated versions of most of the original AppleMods modules to get you
started.
p.p.s. As an added bonus (and to tempt you all into checking it out),
the AppleModsTools.osax included in the preview distribution includes
a nifty new microsecond timing command, AMTime, that works on 32- and
64-bit PPC and x86 architectures. Should be very handy to those of you
who, like me, miss the famed 'the ticks' and 'GetMilliSec' commands of
yore.
--
Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC:
http://appscript.sourceforge.net
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