Re: Request for Authors: Focused Cocoa Topic Books
Re: Request for Authors: Focused Cocoa Topic Books
- Subject: Re: Request for Authors: Focused Cocoa Topic Books
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:03:58 +0100
Erik Buck wrote:
Cocoa for Scripting and dynamic languages
Applescript
There's already a book on AppleScript's Cocoa bridge, although I
don't know how good it is:
http://www.amazon.com/AppleScript-Studio-Programming-Absolute-
Beginner/dp/1598633031
Ruby
Python
Tcl
F-Script
With Apple including RubyCocoa and PyObjC in Leopard (PerlObjC is
already included in Tiger, btw), that might create demand for Cocoa
literature aimed specifically at Ruby and Python users. Whether it'd
be enough to justify the production costs for a dead-tree book is
another question, mind you. Another option might be to raise a bounty
which could be paid out to writers and editors in return for
improving and extending the existing PyObjC and RubyCocoa
documentation. Might be worth speaking directly to Apple, the PSF and
Python and Ruby developer communities about that. (Both platforms
seem to be pretty similar, btw, so writers could likely save some
time by writing material for one, then reworking it for the other.)
Scripting Bridge allows you to automatically build "glue" code to
access a scriptable application with standard Objective-C method
calls.
I've not seen Scripting Bridge myself so couldn't comment on that. I
am hoping to write an article on objc-appscript though, so if you've
any requests or suggestions on what you'd like to see covered, please
drop me a note.
has
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http://appscript.sourceforge.net
http://rb-appscript.rubyforge.org
http://appscript.sourceforge.net/objc-appscript.html
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