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Re: What is "system events" ?
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Re: What is "system events" ?


  • Subject: Re: What is "system events" ?
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 22:16:55 +1100

On 21 Oct 2017, at 11:24 am, Jim Underwood <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I have come to think of SE as the AppleScript Swiss Army Knife

That's probably a good analogy. But if you've ever used some of the tools on a
Swiss Army Knife, you'll know they're often not nearly as good as a proper
screw driver or whatever. It has quirks and bugs, and things like the file
suite -- which should be a replacement for a lot of Finder scripting -- has had
plenty of bugs over the years. And unfortunately some of the functions, like
the XML and property list stuff, don't scale well -- do anything remotely
complex and they're very slow (more due to AS itself rather than anything
peculiar to System Events).

--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>


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