Future of Applescript and sandboxing
Future of Applescript and sandboxing
- Subject: Future of Applescript and sandboxing
- From: Donald Hall <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:13:38 -0700
Eric,
I and at least one other person have filed a bug report with Apple regarding Applescript and sandboxing. Please do the same. The sandboxing restriction placed on Applescript precludes such useful programs as my Script Timer and Red Sweater's Fastscripts from being in the Mac App Store. If they insist on sandboxing there needs to be a mechanism that allows the user to okay scripting access to any app they approve it to, similar to the way you must okay the running of any program downloaded from the Internet now. ------------ Here's a weird one,
I recently contacted a developer and requested AppleScript-ability for his
app. He wrote back and said that he wasn't planning to integrate AppleScript
because Apple was not showing good future support for AppleScript. I quoted
a recent post by Sal in Macintouch that said Applescript was alive and great
things were planned for 2012. The developer replied-
" I hope so, but it looks pretty grim for Mac App Store apps. If you have
to ask for specific permission from Apple for your application to be allowed
to script another specific application, scripting is still officially alive
but its usefulness is slashed.
I was for instance considering adding script support for Vitamin-R, so that
users could have their own scripts launched at various stages, e.g. to bring
up custom notifications, add iCal events, etc.
If Apple go ahead with the sandboxing as announced for March, I will as part
of the submission process to the Mac App Store ask for scripting access to
iCal for instance.. which I'm not going to get as Vitamin-R does not script
iCal itself and there's the calendar framework for application scripting.
BUT Vitamin-R won't be able to trigger your AppleScript to script iCal
either.
So you're free to launch customer scripts that script the same applications
that your program explicitly scripts already but no others. This assuming
that I'll even get permission to script Things, OmniFocus and The Hit List
as is currently the case.. "
It seems from his reply that he might be misinterpreting my request. I
wanted to write scripts that call his app. His statement seems to be about
HIS app calling other apps. And what does he mean by "AppleScript's
usefulness will be slashed" ?
It's pretty confusing.
- Eric
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