Scriptable applications
Scriptable applications
- Subject: Scriptable applications
- From: Ray Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 21:54:11 -0500
> On Dec 21, 2015, at 2:38 AM, Jon Pugh <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Really, the thing we’ve needed for over 20 years now are quality scriptable applications by programmers who care about scripting.
I do appreciate all of the library discussion here and the initiative for a shared library project.
While this is all helpful, we all know what Jon stated above is far more important to the long-term future and usefulness of AppleScript.
And how can we get programmers to care more about support for scripting? The honest answer is we can’t. Yes, we can advocate. We can lobby individual developers and companies. But we’ve not seen great results with this over the past 20 years, with a few notable exceptions. We mostly have to depend on a hero somewhere who has seen the light.
By all reports it is very challenging to add support for Apple Events. Could we expect some type of magic bullet from Apple to make that better in the future for all application developers?
Plug-n-play Apple Event support? Hooks to allow scripters to add support to existing apps? A small team at Apple or elsewhere ready to add event support for certain third-party apps?
I can only hope.
Ray
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