Re: AppleScriptObjC & Cocoa
Re: AppleScriptObjC & Cocoa
- Subject: Re: AppleScriptObjC & Cocoa
- From: Chris Swain via AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:28:27 +0100
Hi,
I started out using AppleScript Studio when it first came out to create a GUI
for an open source command line tools called OpenBabel, this has now been
through AppleScriptObjC and I’ve just rewritten in using Swift ObJC.
I started off with a very simple version I called “molSeeker” and I’ve written
it up here
https://www.macinchem.org/reviews/molseeker/molSeeker.php
<https://www.macinchem.org/reviews/molseeker/molSeeker.php>
Then embarked on the iBabel rewrite described here.
https://www.macinchem.org/ibabel/version4/iBabel4_0.php
<https://www.macinchem.org/ibabel/version4/iBabel4_0.php>
There is a steep learning curve but lots of very good YouTube tutorials, swift
playgrounds are also a great way to try things out. I still use AppleScript to
control some applications, but if something needs a GUI I’d now look at Swift.
Cheers
Chris
Dr Chris Swain BA MA (Cantab) PhD CChem FRSC
Macs in Chemistry
email@hidden
https://www.macinchem.org
> Hello!
> being fairly new to AppleScripting, some of the books I?ve been going through
> discuss AppleScript Studio and being able to create an AppleScript
> application in Xcode. Of course, AppleScript Studio is not a thing. But seems
> like pretty cool concept making your scripts with a user interface. Is there
> a way to do this currently? I found that it has largely been replaced by
> AppleScriptObjC and the Cocoa framework. So can you create AppleScript apps
> with GUI? And is it beneficial to learn the Cocoa framework, Objective-C, and
> thus AppleScriptObjC if I ever want to write more advanced scripts,
> especially with GUI?s? If so, are there any resources out there? Sorry for
> the lengthy email!
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