Re: variables vrs properties
Re: variables vrs properties
- Subject: Re: variables vrs properties
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:11:09 -0800
On Jan 5, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Shane Stanley wrote:
> On 6/1/11 5:25 AM, "Ed Stockly" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> A script must execute within another process. You run a script typically from
>> a script menu either in an application or from the system’s script menu.
>>
>> An Applet or Droplet works as its own application, even if you launch it from
>> a script menu.
>>
>> When you run a script you save the time it takes to launch applet as an
>> application.
>>
>> In many cases developers have optimized the processes involved in executing
>> scripts making them much faster. It’s often faster to run the same script from
>> the InDesign script menu than it is from the System Script menu.
>>
>> So depending on the context, scripts can execute either a little quicker or a
>> lot faster.
>
> The situation is complicated by the fact that the standard AS applet shell
> is very slow. You can wrap a script in a "run script", or use a simple
> AppleScriptObjC shell, and the difference in performance is like night and
> day.
>
> --
> Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
> 'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
Can you explain that a little more?
You're doing this within the applet?
You are instead creating something with AppleScriptObjC?
Not sure what comes when here.
Bruce Robertson _______________________________________________
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