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Re: AppleScript Studio

To: REALbasic Network Users Group <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: AppleScript Studio
From: louis <louisr at gte dot net>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 10:21:06 -0800
i started with applescript before rb.

at first i thought the syntax of rb was strange and applescript was great.

it has now switched to the point i will try at all costs to build something in rb.


On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, at 10:09 AM, William Leshner wrote:

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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