Re: What is "system events" ?
Re: What is "system events" ?
- Subject: Re: What is "system events" ?
- From: Jim Underwood <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 23:18:48 +0000
- Thread-topic: What is "system events" ?
Shane,
Thanks for sharing your insights into System Events.
I would love to have the details, and to document System Events better, so that
all, especially AppleScript newcomers, could see and benefit from it. Of
course, I can start with the details provided in this thread, and then present
for everyone's review/comment/correction.
The groups.io AppleScript subgroup<https://apple-dev.groups.io/g/applescript>
provides us with an AppleScript
Wiki<https://apple-dev.groups.io/g/applescript/wiki/Home> which I have made an
initial draft, just to get us started. If you, and others, will provide me
with the basic System Events "dos and don'ts", what it is good at, and what its
limitations, bugs, and issues are, I will format and put in the AppleScript
Wiki<https://apple-dev.groups.io/g/applescript/wiki/Home> for everyone's
review. The wiki is setup to allow all groups.io member to edit. So everyone
can easily contribute to making it better. If anyone would prefer to just
provide comments/corrections, I'll be happy to take those and make the changes.
As part of putting all of this together in the wiki, if anyone can provide
specific references (with a link) that would be very helpful.
Thanks.
Best Regards,
Jim Underwood
aka JMichaelTX
From: Shane Stanley
<email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>>
Date: Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 6:16 AM
To: "ASUL (AppleScript)"
<email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>>
Subject: Re: What is "system events" ?
On 21 Oct 2017, at 11:24 am, Jim Underwood
<email@hidden<mailto: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<mailto:email@hidden>>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>
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