If Documentation is the 'Castor Oil Of Programming'...
If Documentation is the 'Castor Oil Of Programming'...
- Subject: If Documentation is the 'Castor Oil Of Programming'...
- From: Lance Drake <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:22:34 -0700
..then SampleCode is the ExLax of finished projects.
OK... enuf cuteness. We need some attention to documentation and
samplecode for AppleEvents and the NSAppleEventDescriptor class as per
the world of Cocoa/Objective-C.
AppleEvents, factored applications and Scripting are the secret-sauce
ingredients in what makes Apple such a great environment for Users and
what all the big-cool-guys make use of in the world of apps that
actually make money.
There is a pitiful paucity (<-- hey - check out the alliteration AND
with an odd word!) of current AE information and absolutely no AE
samplecode written for the Cocoa world. How about a project that shows
how to define, install and make use of an AppleEvent Connection with
another process where you perform asynchronous messaging that involves
sending a structure of info back and forth? That definition pretty
much covers most of the big bases in the AE world and there are all
kinds of useful applications for that model which people could
immediately bring to service on behalf of their efforts. AEs are not
only for moving windows, they're realtime, reliable, configurable,
structured EVENTS that fit right into your process control loops... but
I digress.
Would somebody please pass this note along to the responsible manager
at Apple and suggest this is a huge-value-added opportunity to provide
some really needed reinforcement for developers.
At the same time, please pass along my name and suggest I would love to
have this as a contract assignment on behalf of Apple's commitment to
fashionably ushering AppleEvents into the realm of their beautiful new
OS. OK - even if I don't get the job (which I will, right after I win
Powerball and don't NEED a job) it's something that really deserves to
be done.
In the OS domain of intelligent agents, AppleEvents is right up there
with TCP as an important, capable and powerful means of communication -
and that's what it's all about... communication.
OK... now where do I turn in this soapbox?
Lance Drake
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