Re: Visual Basic versus AppleScript
Re: Visual Basic versus AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Visual Basic versus AppleScript
- From: Richard Rönnbäck <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:09:07 +0200
- Thread-topic: Visual Basic versus AppleScript
VB / VB.NET are general programming languages and it's lightweight sibling
VBA is what is commonly used for Office.
Anyway, Office is incredibly feature rich, which means you can do things
with Office that is simply impossible to do with iWork.
While Office for Mac graphical user interface is nearly as rich on features
as it's Windows counterpart, AppleScript will not allow you to do all the
things you can do with VBA, for example building and controlling user
interfaces or embed script/macros.
If you integrate, or perhaps one should say extend, your code into
applications done in VB.NET (rather than VBA) you are free to use anything
that is available in the .NET platform, which somewhat simplified means that
you can do things that for a Mac Programmer would require them to create
Cocoa applications.
A good number of business process depends on such custom VBA/.NET stuff and
while many things would be possible to achieve with Office for
Mac+AppleScript+Cocoa it is much harder.
// Richard
> Från: Doug Tallman <email@hidden>
> Datum: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:46:31 -0400
> Till: AppleScript Users <email@hidden>
> Ämne: Visual Basic versus AppleScript
>
> From time to time I find myself in the middle of OS X vs. Windows
> wars. And occasionally, someone will pipe up that one of the reasons
> Office is a "better" product is Visual Basic. It strikes me that iWork
> and AppleScript should be able to many of the same kinds of things.
> Can someone outline what some of the differences between VB and AS? Is
> one strikingly "better" than the other?
>
> doug
>
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