on 2008-04-15 5:37 PM, Jens Alfke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not so enthusiastic about it it's basically the GUI equivalent > of Application Enhancer, or of HTML screen-scraping.
That really isn't fair. I avoid Application Enhancer like the plague. In fact, I had to work with Unsanity so that I could modify my own applications in order to avoid APE's interference. The Accessibility API is a fully public and supported API from Apple. It is designed to make all Mac applications accessible to users with disabilities, so that Mac applications can meet federal legal requirements under the Americans With Disabilities Act. There is nothing skanky about it. I've been working with it for several years now, and I find it entirely reliable and useful. You may be confusing the Accessibility API with GUI Scripting. Although GUI Scripting is based on the Accessibility API, GUI Scripting is designed only to offer AppleScript services that are unrelated to the purpose of the Accessibility API. It is certainly true that a scripter is well advised to use an application's built-in AppleScript support, if available, before resorting to GUI Scripting as a last resort, for exactly the reasons you state. But that only has to do with AppleScript. If an application supports AppleScript, it probably does so much better than GUI Scripting does. For that reason GUI Scripting is a last resort for a scripter, to be used only if direct AppleScript support is unavailable. But the original poster wasn't asking how to use AppleScript. He was asking how to write an application. The operations he wants his application to perform are perfectly handled by the Accessibility API. In fact, they are exactly what the Accessibility API was designed to do. -- Bill Cheeseman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA www.quecheesoftware.com PreFab Software - www.prefabsoftware.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
