Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 24th Jul 2005 21:08 UTC
Do you want to make the most of your Mac applications? Like all operating systems, the Mac has many different levels of programming, and more than 80 percent of all applications built for OS X leverage AppleScript as an automation tool. In this introductory article, Matthew David tells you how you can best leverage AppleScript for your Mac applications.
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2005-07-06
Is there anything similar for other platforms? Because if so, I'd be quite interested in checking them out.
Well, there's KDE's DCOP(1) interface, which can be called from scripting languages, and has hooks for compiled languages. DCOP allows you to interact with the graphical applications KDE provides making it possible to automate tasks that require human interaction. There's also Kommander(2) which is used to generate graphical applications that are DCOP-centric, allowing you to create GUIs for your scripts quite simply.
Then there's Tcl/Tk(3), but that's a little different from Applescript, though a viable alternative.
(1) http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/dcop.html
(2) http://kommander.kdewebdev.org/
(3) http://tcl.sourceforge.net/