Re: Native Cocoa API for iTunes?
Re: Native Cocoa API for iTunes?
- Subject: Re: Native Cocoa API for iTunes?
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:31:07 -0700
On Jul 21, 2011, at 6:14 PM, bradgibbs wrote:
> My point was, if Apple has re-written iTunes in Obj-C, they didn't necessarily re-implement the same scripting interface. They may have added, removed or fixed from 10.3 and earlier, or they may have dumped scriptability completely.
Oh boy, if they had, they’d have had a bunch of 3rd party app developers descending on them with pitchforks and torches. There are a lot of apps that use AppleEvents to drive iTunes. And Apple takes backward compatibility pretty seriously.
> What I was hoping for was a link to an article I missed on a wonderful new native Cocoa API.
That doesn’t really make sense. A native Cocoa API would still have to be a wrapper around to some other IPC mechanism, in order to talk to an external process. And that IPC mechanism is AppleEvents. (Yes, it’s conceivable that an app could expose a Distributed Objects interface, but DO is way, way too fragile to expose to outside developers that way.)
—Jens_______________________________________________
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