Re: variables vrs properties
Re: variables vrs properties
- Subject: Re: variables vrs properties
- From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 17:30:35 -0600
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: variables vrs properties
I wonder if it's possible to build a shell template that does it that way
and incorporate it into SD or SE so it saves using a better shell.
Cal was working on something similar, back in the day.
Ed
On 1/5/11 3:28 PM, "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 6/1/11 10:11 AM, "Bruce Robertson" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Suppose you have a script applet:
>
> tell application "XYZ.app"
> -- do a zillion things
> end tell
>
> And it's slow. But rewrite it like this:
>
> script goFast
> tell application "XYZ.app"
> -- do a zillion things
> end tell
> end script
>
> run script goFast
>
> And it goes much, much faster. In the case of one of my Illustrator scripts,
> probably a couple of orders of magnitude faster.
>
> The AppleScriptObjC route is to write an ASObjC script that loads a script
> from its bundle, and then runs that. Same principal except (a) you can use
> the same shell structure, storing your script file as main.scpt in the
> bundle, (b) you don't need to modify your script, and (c) your script gets
> access to all the other ASObjC goodness as well.
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