Re: Applescript in Mac OS 11?
Re: Applescript in Mac OS 11?
- Subject: Re: Applescript in Mac OS 11?
- From: Deivy Petrescu via AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 09:12:09 -0400
Automation for the Mac is not a capricious desire of few.
Automation for Mac is a tool that makes one much ore efficient.
I teach, to create a spread sheet for record keeping I wrote a ASOC-app, thanks
Shane, that allows me to just copy the roster from a web page enter some data
(days teaching holidays, weight of tasks, etc and I have either a Numbers(the
one I use) or Excel spreadsheet with all the formulas and format I want.
First roster call in class is done by the Mac (because then I can see “the
face” of the students).
It doesn't matter how many students I have, each has a web page with all their
information and appropriate message. AppleScript!
To enter the grades on banner (an awful platform) AppleScript.
If the students take the test online, data is saved on a MySQL DB, the query
via web returns the data that is identified with only parts of the student’s id
(so as not to be identifiable), and the transference between the page and the
spreadsheet, AppleScript.
I get the (hidden) emails of every student from a web page via AppleScript.
If AppleScript is gone and my productivity on a windows pc or a Mac is the same
and if price is an issue why would I buy a Mac?
What colleagues take a lot of time to do, I do it fast and customizable.
And this is just part of it, since I use it for many other stuff, for instance.
I use AppleScript to find the solutions of the most boring problem (finding
the steam and leaf plot, to find product o Matrices (Boolean or not), truth
tables, some Boolean functions (although I found some bugs in JavaScript).
Apple should improve automation, not get rid of it.
And the fact that with every new version this community worries about the
future of AppleScript, it does not bode well.
> On Jun 25, 2020, at 23:56 , Shane Stanley via AppleScript-Users
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 25 Jun 2020, at 1:05 pm, Takaaki Naganoya via AppleScript-Users
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This appears to be due to using Catalyst for the rewrite, and Catalyst
>>> doesn’t, and probably won’t ever, support AppleScript.
>>>
>>> Until iOS does. ;)
>>
>> https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/1136673893698215938
>>
>>> Responding to AppleScript events in your UIKit app on macOS Catalina is as
>>> easy as 1, 2, 3
>
> Just following this up: Broadcast.app in the App Store is a scriptable
> Catalyst app.
>
> The developer, Steve Troughton-Smith, also tweeted:
>
>> Broadcasts is a Catalyst app on macOS; it was trivial to add support for
>> AppleScript and a scripting dictionary. If Apple has chosen not to include
>> one in Messages, that’s a design decision, not a hard limitation
>
> (Where "trivial" is probably exaggeration for effect.)
>
> A lot of Messages scripting no longer works in Catalina. I wouldn't have been
> surprised to see Messages scripting disappear even if not a Catalyst app, for
> security reasons.
>
> --
> Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
> <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>
>
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