Re: Messaging Cocoa apps through Terminal
Re: Messaging Cocoa apps through Terminal
- Subject: Re: Messaging Cocoa apps through Terminal
- From: Jeffrey Oleander <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:34:17 -0800 (PST)
> On Wed, 2010/03/03, Matt Neuburg <email@hidden> wrote:
> From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Messaging Cocoa apps through Terminal
> To: "Ulai Beekam" <email@hidden>
> Cc: email@hidden
> Date: Wednesday, 2010 March 03, 13:02
>> On Wed, 2010 Mar 03 16:17:13 +0000,
>> Ulai Beekam <email@hidden>
>> said:
>>get the point. Just so the user (but mainly the
>> developer for testing purposes) can somehow
>> make the app do things that cannot be done
>> in the UI.
>
> This might be a reason to build some scriptability
> (AppleScript-type) into the app. In fact, it is
> the usual reason. Granted, it might also be
> overkill for your app. But it's a very good way
> to build in some "hidden" preferences.
>
> On the other hand if you are just saying you want
> to automate the choosing of a certain menu item
> or pushing of a certain button 100 times, you
> could use GUI scripting without bothering to
> make your app scriptable at all. GUI scripting
> is a very good "poor man's" way to automate
> interface testing, and on Cocoa apps it just
> works, out of the box, for most interfaces. m.
I'd like something like this just to make my apps
properly interruptible.
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