Thanks, Has. This looks great. Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 13, 2015, at 10:25 AM, has <hengist.p...@virgin.net> wrote: > > Hi all, > > In light of OS X 10.11 addressing some longstanding deficiencies in > NSAppleEventDescriptor, I've been dusting off a fork of my old objc-appscript > project, now renamed AppleEventBridge, modernizing and extending it both to > take advantage of improvements to ObjC in the last few years and to add > native support for Apple's new Swift language: > > https://bitbucket.org/hhas/appleeventbridge/ > > Unlike Apple's flawed Scripting Bridge and JavaScript for Automation, AEB > aims to provide application scripting capabilities and compatibility that > equal (if not better) AppleScript's own, along with superior documentation > and developer tool support. > > Here's a simple example, comparing AEB's new Swift and ObjC bindings against > de facto standard AppleScript: > > tell application "TextEdit" to get text of document 1 > > let result = try TextEdit().documents[1].text.get() as! String > > id result = [[TEDApplication application].documents[1].text getItem]; > > > A simple Apple event translation tool, SwiftAETranslate, is included in the > project, making it easy to convert AppleScript commands to their Swift > equivalents. It's a great learning tool if you've always found AppleScript > code perplexing, and well worth pulling the project just to try it out > yourself: > > git clone https://bitbucket.org/hhas/appleeventbridge.git > > Swift support requires Swift 2.0 and Xcode 7 beta 3 or later, and works on > 10.10+. > > > While this release is not intended for production use (builds are rather > messy and there's still rough edges and bugs), it is sufficiently mature to > allow interested Swift and ObjC users to explore and experiment with it, and > to offer advice, suggestions, and other feedback with a view to getting the > whole thing to a production-quality 1.0 release before the end of the year. > > Enjoy, and I look forward to hearing what you think. > > has > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/zav%40mac.com > > This email sent to z...@mac.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
