On 2/15/10 4:50 PM, Gideon King said: >Thanks for the suggestion. Have not encountered Scripting Bridge before >and have very little experience or understanding of AppleScript and no >knowledge of Apple Events or what they do. I had a vague notion that >Apple Events were pretty much old technology from before OSX, but now I >see that it appears that it's the foundation of AppleScript. I guess I >should take time to look into these technologies sometime (I come from a >NextStep/OpenStep/WebObjects background)...
AppleEvents date from System 7, so yeah, they're pretty old. But that should not automatically disqualify them. UNIX and NeXTStep are old too. :) >Is there any particular reason you say to stay away from NSTask? I only meant that it's generally preferable to use an API when you can. ex: don't copy files using NSTask and 'cp', because NSWorkspace can copy files. >Scripting Bridge seems like an interesting option, but after having >generated the headers for Finder, I could not see a command there for >compressing files. I guess it's not scriptable. The Finder is scriptable, but not every command can be scripted. I looked quickly with AppleScript Editor, and indeed Finder does not seem to expose 'compress'. Oh well. I'd file a bug asking that NSWorkspaceCompressOperation be implemented. -- ____________________________________________________________ Sean McBride, B. Eng s...@rogue-research.com Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada _______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
