| Hi I was asking questions about Applescript support for Xcode4 few times and didn't get any answer. (and yes, I sent question to the applescript list as well with the same result)
I think I was polite, question wasn't off topic not even one Apple engineer answered I understand they don't have to, but still that is weird.
I submitted few bugreports related to Applescript support in Xcode, one of them about 4 years ago none of them are fixed
if Apple doesn't support Applescript in Xcode, just say so but it looks like there is no any testing (or almost there is no testing) for Xcode AppleScript dictionary. and in Xcode 4 it is complete disaster.
if something worked in Xcode 3.2.6, in Xcode 4 practically nothing works, zero.
I'm working for big and very respectable company we have thousand and thousands files, literally millions lines of code (C/C++/Java)
so we need to organize our code. we need autogenerate our projects. It is relatively easy for VisualStudio, so Mac programmers like to have autogenerated Xcode projects as well.
Apple doesn't publish Xcode project format I don't want to use reverse engineering (I'm aware about open source that do just that) so we have only one path to generate Xcode projects - AppleScript
I managed to create script that successfully does it, but I must admit it was a pain in the ass (sorry) but with "System Events" scriptability help I was successful
unfortunately Xcode4 broke practically everything yes I submitted bugreport (3-4 months ago - no answer)
Apple didn't publish any transition guide related to AppleScript support, even simple things don't work say I want to set build setting in Xcode 3.X it works set project_path to "/Users/Shared/Scripts/Xcode_test/Xcode_test.xcodeproj" set project_file to POSIX file project_path as alias set sandbox to "/path/to/sandbox" tell application id "com.apple.Xcode" open project_file activate set my_project to active project document tell my_project delete every build setting of every build configuration set value of build setting "SANDBOX" of every build configuration to sandbox end tell end tell in Xcode 4 it failed: set project_path to "/Users/Shared/Scripts/Xcode4_test/Xcode4_test.xcodeproj" set project_file to POSIX file project_path as alias set sandbox to "/path/to/sandbox" tell application id "com.apple.dt.Xcode" open project_file activate set my_work_space to active workspace document set my_project to item 1 of projects of my_work_space tell my_project delete every build setting of every build configuration --ok set value of build setting "SANDBOX" of every build configuration to sandbox --error end tell end tell
iI'm getting the following error:
error "Xcode got an error: Can’t set build setting \"SANDBOX\" of every build configuration of project \"Xcode4_test\" of workspace document \"project.xcworkspace\" to \"/path/to/sandbox\"." number -10006 from build setting "SANDBOX" of every build configuration of project "Xcode4_test" of workspace document "project.xcworkspace"
so what's wrong?
I was able to add targets (from target templates), now there is no target templates (why BTW), so I can not autogenerate targets or maybe I can, I just don't know how (well System Events to the rescue, but that means that I can not send my AppleScript application to background)
I'm just desperate :-(
sorry if I upset somebody,
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