Re: What is "system events" ?
Re: What is "system events" ?
- Subject: Re: What is "system events" ?
- From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 09:05:01 +0900
> On Oct 21, 2017, at 7:44, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> What other practical use cases are there for System Events scripting?
>
> You've received plenty of answers, but perhaps this gives some context. For a
> long time Apple has been discouraging scripting additions, and the advice at
> the time was to use faceless background applications -- which is what System
> Events is -- instead. So as time went on, new functionality that might
> otherwise have been added to Standard Additions was added to System Events.
> They followed their own advice.
Ok, I had the idea that it was mostly UI scripting, but sometimes it would do
something else. Indeed, the dictionary covers a huge lot of totally unrelated
areas of specialization.
So I guess I just need to remind myself that "System Events" is a misnomer and
call that "Headless Applications Bundle", which is much less sexy, but more
indicative of what the thing really does.
Thank you again all who have replied.
Jean-Christophe
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> Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
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