On 28 Sep 2015, at 8:36 PM, Christopher Stone <email@hidden> wrote:
Not bad for a 365KB library.
I take that as high praise, considering the source ;-)
For lurkers who are happy with their keyboards, let me point out the main use-case of BridgePlus. When El Capitan officially lands in a couple of days, it will bring several important improvements to bridging, for files and dates, that will make using ASObjC even easier. But like all OS-based improvements, you can only use them if your script runs only under the new OS. You may find yourself having to leave the shiny new tools on the shelf, because you have to run on earlier versions.
With BridgePlus, you get commands that give you access to the bridging improvements of El Capitan, even when the scripts run under Mavericks or Yosemite. So, for example, if you have an array of NSDates, coercing it to a list under 10.11 results in a list of AS dates, but under earlier versions it's a list of NSDates. Using BridgePlus's ASify from command instead of "as list", you get the list of dates regardless of OS. Similarly, the Cocoaify command converts the other way.
And it throws in equivalents for most of the commands from ASObjC runner.app, for good measure.
Last but not least, it's indispensable if you ever want to draw pie charts in Illustrator or InDesign.
Worth every cent... |