Re: updating old nsapplescript methods
Re: updating old nsapplescript methods
- Subject: Re: updating old nsapplescript methods
- From: "Rick C." <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:17:31 +0800
Thank you Jerry and yes this was my mistake of reading only the class documentation!
The rest is pretty clear thanks again!
rc
On Mar 10, 2012, at 9:54 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
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> On 2012 Mar 10, at 01:07, Rick C. wrote:
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>> I have a number of older nsapplescript methods in a project that I would like to update to something newer.
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> Huh?
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>> the non-thread safety is an issue
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> Maybe you've made the mistake of reading the class documentation,
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> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSAppleScript_Class/Reference/Reference.html
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> which says:
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> "Important You should access NSAppleScript only from the main thread."
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> without reading the Release Notes (now three years old),
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> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/AppleScript/RN-AppleScript/RN-10_6/RN-10_6.html
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> which says, surprise!,
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> "OSA and AppleScript are now thread-safe: they may be safely called on a non-main thread … This also applies to NSAppleScript."
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> (Thanks to AppleScript guru Shane Stanley for finding that.)
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>> and always dealing with quotations and having to escape them is a bit of a pain.
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> That's life.
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>> I know I can use nstask for some
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> That's a pain.
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>> and I'm a little familiar with scripting bridge
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> That's real pain!
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>> but just wanted to get some opinions.
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> I submitted a "not helpful" on the documentation last October. Maybe if everyone on the list does the same it will be fixed someday.
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