Re: Cocoa scripting support - background helper app

2010-04-11 Thread Bill Cheeseman
On Apr 11, 2010, at 11:20 AM, jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote: > This explains the presence of Keychain Scripting.app in > /system/library/scripting additions. Correct. Faceless Background Applications (FBAs) are often preferred over scripting additions (OSAXen) for a number of reasons, includin

Re: Cocoa scripting support - background helper app

2010-04-11 Thread jonat...@mugginsoft.com
On 11 Apr 2010, at 15:52, Bill Cheeseman wrote: > > On Apr 11, 2010, at 10:14 AM, jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote: > >> My questions are: >> >> 1. Presumably I have to target a fully fledged application bundle and cannot >> somehow route my AE requests to the foundation tool itself. >> >> 2. C

Re: Cocoa scripting support - background helper app

2010-04-11 Thread Bill Cheeseman
On Apr 11, 2010, at 10:14 AM, jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote: > My questions are: > > 1. Presumably I have to target a fully fledged application bundle and cannot > somehow route my AE requests to the foundation tool itself. > > 2. Can I embed the helper app in the main app bundle and engineer

Cocoa scripting support - background helper app

2010-04-11 Thread jonat...@mugginsoft.com
My Cocoa app consists of GUI component and an agent foundation component in a conventional bundle. The agent can execute without the GUI to provide a network accessible service. I would like AppleScripts run by the foundation tool to be able to target a scriptable helper app. I would prefer NOT