Found: Replacement for "Front End" of User Scripts
Found: Replacement for "Front End" of User Scripts
- Subject: Found: Replacement for "Front End" of User Scripts
- From: Jerry Krinock <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:24:30 -0700
As I watch the WWDC 2011 videos and play with Xcode 4, I'm still trying to understand Apple's reasoning behind elimination of the wonderful and useful User Scripts feature, after it had been polished so nicely in Xcode 3.
Yesterday I learned that the new "Behaviors" feature allows you to create menu items and assign keyboard shortcuts to script files. Being buried in a submenu, it's not as handy as the old "scripts" menu, but it's better than having to involve a third party like QuicKeys.
So maybe the idea was that Behaviors ▸ Edit Behaviors ▸ [+] New Behavior would replace the "front end" of User Scripts. But it seems out of place there. More importantly, the "middle" (activating an external editor to edit and save script files) is still painful, and due to the AppleScriptability bugs in Xcode 4, there is no replacement for the "back end", accessing the text and insertion point in the document being edited, which is needed for many scripts.
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