Re: OSAScriptView - documentation?
Re: OSAScriptView - documentation?
- Subject: Re: OSAScriptView - documentation?
- From: 2551phil <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:50:11 +0700
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On 16 Aug 2013, at 08:09, Kaydell Leavitt <email@hidden> wrote:
> Phil,
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> On Aug 15, 2013, at 4:56 PM, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> As a result, I'm often not familiar with the 'lingua franca' (depends on what I've skipped over too quickly on my own learning path), so I'd appreciate a 'dummies' pointer to what "headers" are, and where I find them.
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>> The .h files. They're in the frameworks.
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> In your Xcode project, you can open up the Frameworks, and each one has a folder called "headers", and in there, is a list of .h (dot-h) file, where "h" is short for "header". These are the interfaces to the "libraries" which are also a part of the Frameworks. Apple gives out the "public interfaces" to the frameworks in he .h files.
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> Sometimes, you want to search for something in the header files. There are two ways that you can do this in the Finder:
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> 1. Open up the folder:
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> /System/Library/Frameworks
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> in the Finder, and then do a search, but this isn't really good because I like to stay out of the System folder, so maybe option #2 below is better.
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> OR
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> 2. Find any header file in your Xcode project and, in Xcode, do a "Show In Finder" command. This will take you to where the header files are that Xcode uses to compile with. Then, you can go up to a directory that is called "Frameworks" and you can do a Finder-search from there and search all of the headers.
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> For example, you could search for "AppleScript" and search for "AppleEvent" and find many header files pertaining to scripting.
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> -- Kaydell
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