Re: Script Objects
Re: Script Objects
- Subject: Re: Script Objects
- From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:08:22 +0100
There are certainly tons of answers, which are more or less relevant
to a given person...
Here's my preferred. In Smile's "advanced" Search & Replace dialog,
you can launch several searches at the same time - you can launch the
search in folder B while the search in folder A is still in progress.
This is performed by cloning a script object: a given clone contains
the whole context required by the dialog to run a given search (such
as: the search string, the output window, etc).
More generally, script objects are a way to spawn and kill contexts ad
libitum. Furthermore it has been suggested that lists which are
properties of script objects are faster to access.
Emmanuel
On Jan 18, 2010, at 11:31 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:
Last week, I was invited to talk to some Cocoa programmers about
AppleScript. I don't know Cocoa, they don't know AppleScript. One of
them is very interested and we are in an email discussion about
AppleScript. He insists on writing everything as a script object
because, as he explained, they look familiar since they contain
"data and methods".
I've never written a script object and I'm not familiar with "data
and methods", so I'm not sure what he's getting at, but he is
beginning to make some sense.
Which brings me to my question ...
What can I do with script objects that I absolutely could not do
without them?
(Or, should I continue to ignore them?)
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