Scripting & Services
Scripting & Services
- Subject: Scripting & Services
- From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:50:10 -0600
I've been thinking about the strengths and weaknesses of AppleScript and
Services for user convenience and am coming to the conclusion that it would
be nice if they could be merged. The big advantage of services is that the
server application doesn't need to launch its GUI when a service is called;
the main disadvantages are that the Services menu is a mess, and any given
app provides only a small number of hard-wired services. The Script menu
could use some work too, but it's at least somewhat more user-configurable,
and of course AppleScript offers enormous flexibility. I'm starting to see a
few developers such as Aladdin bundle CLI versions or interfaces to their
software which can be called from AppleScript, but I'm wondering if it would
be possible for Cocoa apps to expose "script services" without loading their
GUIs. I'm a novice programmer (and have been for years), so making it happen
would be way above my head at this point. Is this even something that could
be done at the app level, or would it require work on the frameworks from
Apple? Any thoughts?
Michael
--
"It should be noted that, whenever possible, ignorance is to be avoided."
- Patrick Shaw
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