Re: Problems running AppleScripts simultaneously
Re: Problems running AppleScripts simultaneously
- Subject: Re: Problems running AppleScripts simultaneously
- From: "Jacopille, David" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 14:13:43 +0000
- Thread-topic: Problems running AppleScripts simultaneously
Shane,
AppleScriptObjC seems very powerful, but I'm concerned that it's a
concatenation of two languages that are not getting much love from Apple right
now. Faced with replacing thousands of lines of AppleScript with some new type
of code I have to ask what application-driving language is likely to provide
the best long term ROI on a massive investment in time? I'm not sure there is
any good answer.
Perhaps the idea of being able to drive applications with a common language,
however good the idea might have been and still is, just isn't sexy enough to
live. Controlling applications seems to be regressing back into fragmented
landscape of languages like JavaScript for Adobe applications, Ruby, Python,
Perl for others, web service calls for some, and lower level API languages like
C, C#, C++ where necessary.
And RPA has to be mentioned because it is very sexy right now, although perhaps
like a resurgence of bell bottoms... fashionable as long as it takes for
everyone to relearn (or remember) why it's still is a terrible idea.
Oh oracle of scripting and automation... what do you see as the future of
automation involving the control of other applications?
Thanks,
Dave
On 5/24/19, 7:33 PM, "AppleScript-Users on behalf of Shane Stanley"
<applescript-users-bounces+djacopille=email@hidden on behalf of
email@hidden> wrote:
On 25 May 2019, at 4:44 am, Jacopille, David <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Are there any scripting techniques that would be safer.
You could try replacing the Finder and System Events code with
AppleScriptObjC code. Sounds like a big job with that many scripts, though.
Perhaps you could try it with a small sample.
--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>
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