Re: Informal poll
Re: Informal poll
- Subject: Re: Informal poll
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:22:32 +0100
A rather late entry, I'm afraid.
Shane Stanley wrote on Fri, 13 Jun 2014 23:25:58 +1000:
>* Are you using the Script Libraries facility (not Script Debugger
>libraries or "load script" libraries)?
No.
>* If you're not using Script Libraries, is there any particular reason?
There's no point. The old system works perfectly well — on BOTH my
machines — and the code for using it makes crystal clear reading. The
new system, despite the hype in the videos to which James linked, only
adds a Heath Robinson method for accessing ASObjC, the ability to add
dictionary files which you have to write laboriously in XML in another
application, and the ability to use non-vanilla terminology out of
context in scripts, if you think that's a clever idea. The new system
can't find library scripts if they're organised into subfolders.
>* Do you know how to set up Script Libraries and use them in your
scripts?
Yes.
>* Do you think you would be more likely to use ASObjC if you could
include
>it directly in your scripts (perhaps confined to handlers or sections of
>code), or would it not make any difference?
It wouldn't make any difference. Scripters who like or need to use
ASObjC will do whatever's necessary. Those who don't won't bother either
way. But obviously the system for using it needs to be less clunky than
it currently is.
I'm personally not a fan of ASObjC, despite its obvious power. Its
syntax is unwieldy and yet another thing to have to learn, its use
entails trawling through reams of API documentation, and all you can
ultimately *do* with it is to convert data into forms it can use and
call system routines which already do exactly the things for which
you're writing the scripts. Powerful, as I said, but scripting boredom.
>* If you were to be granted one AppleScript-related wish, what would it
be?
Do you mean For what would I be careful to wish? ;) I'd love the core
language itself to have a bit more power, so that it wouldn't be as
necessary to switch to the latest gee-whiz alternative(s).
NG
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