If Facespan had ever been really grabbed and run with by the
builders/buyers of it (DTI) it had a ton of the cool stuff that
Hypercard had about 5 years back.
Very cool, and I did use it for building whole apps' with nice GUI's and
very quickly
AppleScript Studio is sort of the next evolution of Applescript as a
development tool; quite probably because it has a lot of potential to be
the next hypercard in so many ways.
Will it replace RB for me ? ... who knows ... maybe it can in some
fashion but not others
On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, at 11:09 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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