Fantastic! What does it do? --Graham
On 18/04/2013, at 2:44 AM, Steven Degutis <[email protected]> wrote: > Called Windows.app. Source is on github: > https://github.com/sdegutis/windowsapp > > What's particularly neat about it is how you configure it. It looks for a > dotfile in your home dir, which can either be JavaScript or CoffeeScript. > In this config file you, bind your hot keys as you want, using a very > simple API that the app exposes in JS-land. > > I managed to get JavaScript scripting working via JSCocoa, and CoffeeScript > via coffeescript.js and Coffeescript.compile(). Technically I hide the ObjJ > syntax away, since most people are much more comfortable in pure JS than in > ObjJ. I was looking into adding ClojureScript support, but I'm not yet sure > how to avoid the start-up delay when running java. Waiting 5 seconds each > time you reload your config isn't ideal. > > My first choice for scripting was to use MacRuby, but it only works with GC > apps, and this one uses ARC. I hear they've got ARC in the works, so my > fingers are crossed for the future. Also, PyObjC is really hard to > integrate into an app. Ironically enough, when I was googling for how to do > it, I found an article I wrote about it 3 years ago when I was working at > BNR. > > Also, I created a technique for generating appcasts statically from the > command line, and hosting the appcast on github, that might be interesting > to other open source authors who don't want to have any other hosting but > github. The details are in this build.sh file: > https://github.com/sdegutis/windowsapp/blob/master/build.sh > > My apologies if new-app announcements are off-topic, but I think this one > is particularly suitable for cocoa-dev because of the technical details. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
