Re: Scriptable applications
Re: Scriptable applications
- Subject: Re: Scriptable applications
- From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 14:58:53 +0900
In an offlist exchange I'm having right now, I just wrote the following:
> I just checked the level of scriptability of the apps I use and I was surprised to see that even some open source things had some level of scriptability (even minimal). For ex, GitX, svnX, The Unarchiver, VLC and Xchat. Not that I use it much, but if even open source developers add that to their apps, I really don't see why closed apps developers can't do it.
By the way, that "Sticky Note" application that seemingly offers only trivial AS support is just fine. The more such apps exist the more new users (App Store users) will be able to do simple things with their apps and get drawn to AS. And that's what matters.
Jean-Christophe
> On Dec 23, 2015, at 11:54, Ray Robertson <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 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?
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> 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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