Comments on: on apple scripting languages and pain

By: joe

joe — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:44:14 +0000

+1 for that!

By: Jerry Kindall

Jerry Kindall — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 23:40:30 +0000

AppleScript’s learning curve is about like any other programming language. It’s just that everybody expects learning AppleScript to be easier than it is because it looks so much like English.

By: Backup Brain

Backup Brain — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:42:45 +0000

See, it’s not just me

Quote of the day, from limon, by Laura Lemay, on apple scripting languages and pain: But it seems like every time I delve into Applescript I rapidly descend into complete madness, ending up hours later phrasing and rephrasing the same…

By: Dori

Dori — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:30:55 +0000

Thanks, Laura! It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who feels this way. You might check out JavaScript OSA from Late Night Software.

By: Dale

Dale — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:31:39 +0000

AppleScript isn’t so bad. It’s just different and takes getting used to. And like other things, it helps if you learn a bit about it first. Matt Neuberg’s book’s a good start. So’s Danny Goodman’s update to his classic AppleScript tome. There’s a few others too. And plenty of support available in Apple’s AppleScript Users mailing list.

Actually Dashboard doesn’t just use Javascript. This is just what it uses in its presentation layer. It can also use AppleScript, the Cocoa APIs and shell scripting of any variety in combination with the HTML/CSS/Javascript presentation layer.