With the very latest update of Apple's Develop Tools comes AppleScript
Studio. You use it with Project Builder/Interface Builder and basically
it lets you build Cocoa apps with all (or most) of the PB/IB GUI
widgets. The widgets now have event handlers that you turn on in IB and
that puts AppleScript code stubs in a PB applescript file to be filled
in. It's pretty cool. It still isn't as easy to use as RB. And the apps
it builds seem slow to me (I guess that's to be expected). But a lot of
people with probably find it easier to build apps with AppleScript than
with Objective-C or Java (or C++), so the release of AppleScript Studio
might be something the RB community should at least be aware of.
Personally, I've never really been a big AppleScript fan. I'm *far* more
comfortable with REALbasic. And I think RB makes a better scripting
language/environment than AppleScript. I've frequently used it for just
that, running code in the IDE without ever building an app at all. The
RB project becomes the script and if I need to run it again I just open
that project in RB and run it.
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