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AppleScriptObjC: Good News for Objective-C Coders, too Shane - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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AppleScriptObjC: Good News for Objective-C Coders, too Shane Stanley Myriad Communications Pty Ltd <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au> /dev/world/2010 Rydges Melbourne Inter Application Communications Getting information from other
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Inter Application Communications
- Getting information from other
applications
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Inter Application Communications
- Getting information from other
applications
- Allows treating other applications as
“super frameworks”
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Inter Application Communications
- Getting information from other
applications
- Allows treating other applications as
“super frameworks”
- Built on Apple events
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Inter Application Communications
- Getting information from other
applications
- Allows treating other applications as
“super frameworks”
- Built on Apple events
- AppleScript and Apple events were
designed around each other
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Apple Events from Objective-C
- NSAppleEventDescriptor &
AESendMessage() (10.0)
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Apple Events from Objective-C
- NSAppleEventDescriptor &
AESendMessage() (10.0)
- NSAppleScript (10.2)
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Apple Events from Objective-C
- NSAppleEventDescriptor &
AESendMessage() (10.0)
- NSAppleScript (10.2)
- Scripting Bridge (10.5)
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Apple Events from Objective-C
- NSAppleEventDescriptor &
AESendMessage() (10.0)
- NSAppleScript (10.2)
- Scripting Bridge (10.5)
- objc-appscript (third-party)
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Apple Events from Objective-C
- NSAppleEventDescriptor &
AESendMessage() (10.0)
- NSAppleScript (10.2)
- Scripting Bridge (10.5)
- objc-appscript (third-party)
- AppleScriptObjC (10.6)
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AESendMessage()
- Fast and efficient
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AESendMessage()
- Fast and efficient, but complicated
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NSAppleScript
- Simple, but slow and limited
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NSAppleScript
- Simple, but slow and limited
- Simple use is much slower
- Doesn’t integrate well with Objective-C
- Doesn’t scale well
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Scripting Bridge
- Fast, efficient, simple
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Scripting Bridge
- Fast, efficient, simple
- Generate header file and add to project
- Link to framework
- Write code
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Scripting Bridge
- Fast, efficient, simple
- Generate header file and add to project
- Link to framework
- Write code
- Lots of shortcomings
- Incompatible with many applications
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- bjc-appscript
- Third-party framework
- Work-in-progress
- Need to generate objc-appscript
dictionary documentation and glue code
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AppleScriptObjC
- Bridges AppleScript and Cocoa
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AppleScriptObjC
- Bridges AppleScript and Cocoa
- Script objects become Cocoa classes
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AppleScriptObjC
- Bridges AppleScript and Cocoa
- Script objects become Cocoa classes
- Scripts call methods as handlers
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AppleScriptObjC
- Bridges AppleScript and Cocoa
- Script objects become Cocoa classes
- Scripts call methods as handlers
- Classes call handlers as methods
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AppleScriptObjC
- Bridges AppleScript and Cocoa
- Script objects become Cocoa classes
- Scripts call methods as handlers
- Classes call handlers as methods
- Fast, easy to use
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AppleScriptObjC
- Bridges AppleScript and Cocoa
- Script objects become Cocoa classes
- Scripts call methods as handlers
- Classes call handlers as methods
- Fast, easy to use
- Lets languages play to their strengths
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Implementing AppleScriptObjC
- Runs in 10.6 only
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Implementing AppleScriptObjC
- Runs in 10.6 only
- Link to framework
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Implementing AppleScriptObjC
- Runs in 10.6 only
- Link to framework
- Insert in main.c:
#import <AppleScriptObjC/AppleScriptObjC.h> [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadAppleScriptObjectiveCScripts];
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Implementing AppleScriptObjC
- Add AS class, instantiate in .xib
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Implementing AppleScriptObjC
- Add AS class, instantiate in .xib
- Use @class declaration, call handlers
as methods (colons > underscores)
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Implementing AppleScriptObjC
- Add AS class, instantiate in .xib
- Use @class declaration, call handlers
as methods (colons > underscores)
- Use protocol to suppress compiler
warnings
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