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Apple Previews New Script Editor

Posted by pudge on from the for-people-who-still-use-applescript dept.

DrC writes "Apple has released a preview update to the venerable Script Editor, rewritten using Cocoa. It looks like an impressive upgrade." The preview release is included with the Dec 2002 Developer Tools as a separate install, too.

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  1. Re:Advantages of AppleScript over sh, awk, sed, et by pudge · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The author of MacPerl once wrote a Perl OSA component. It was an essentially failed experiment, though I couldn't tell you all the reasons why. What I can say is that I don't think it's necessary for most purposes. MacPerl can speak Apple events, and now perl under Mac OS X can too, with Mac::Carbon. Soon Mac::Glue will also be ported to Mac OS X, allowing you to directly access "AppleScript" vocabulary from Perl, with stuff like:
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    use Mac::Glue;

    my $iTunes = new Mac::Glue 'iTunes';
    my $tracks = $iTunes->obj( tracks => playlist => 'Blues' );

    $iTunes->activate;
    $iTunes->play( $tracks );
    That's hopefully coming to Mac OS X in January or Frburary, but don't hold me to it.