Re: Acquiring the Dropbox Folder Path -- was: Re: Error -10000 for one user
Re: Acquiring the Dropbox Folder Path -- was: Re: Error -10000 for one user
- Subject: Re: Acquiring the Dropbox Folder Path -- was: Re: Error -10000 for one user
- From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 23:56:24 +0000
- Thread-topic: Acquiring the Dropbox Folder Path -- was: Re: Error -10000 for one user
I don't see how AppleScript is more holey than JavaScript or those others but there's lots of things we could do if the local app was scriptable beyond this single issue.
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> On Apr 27, 2016, at 4:52 PM, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On 28 Apr 2016, at 9:42 AM, Stockly, Ed <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I wonder what would happen if they started getting requests for an
>> appleScript API?
>
> You don't need anything AS specific: json is fine. All that's needed is clarification of where it/they is/are stored, and what the json contains. Part of the point of json is that it's language agnostic.
>
>> They have an extensive section on their website for
>> developers, with APIs for all sorts of things, including Javascript;
>> SmallTalk; Ruby; etc. But, alas, no appleScript.
>
> And there can't really be, because it doesn't support the sort of authentication required. It would be a massive security hole.
>
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> Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
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