Re: Javascript for OS X automation
Different world, now. It is in Apple's best interests to maintain a very high performance, featureful and popular Javascript runtime. There's who knows how many orders of magnitude more JS devs than the old days, more than a few of which work at Apple. I'm pretty confident this go-around will be WAY different than the last time. On Saturday, June 14, 2014 6:34:50 PM UTC-4, San wrote: Apple did this once before, years ago... but they gave no support, and then they quickly lost interest. They didn't even provide the JS-OSA library; it came from Late Night Software. There was little documentation and it was a struggle, but I managed to do a few useful things. On your other point, there _is_ internal support for JS automation within BBEdit -- at least it still works in BBEdit 9, where I use a whole bunch of JavaScripted client-side includes for building web pages. (Client-side meaning they run at development time, not on the end-user's machine.) I could never find any documentation for it, just a bare mention in an old BBEdit manual that only showed the process for AppleScript. I was able to figure it out by experimentation. Frankly, though, I wouldn't set up any kind of client-side (devel-time) includes for web pages now; the new ones I'm doing are all PHP on the server instead. I still use the old ones because I already wrote them. Let's hope Apple supports JavaScript system automation in a more serious way than they did last time around. Frankly it was pretty half-assed. On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Rick Yentzer ryen...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I was excited to see this as well and hoped to see integration with BBEdit. I don't use applescript enough in BBEdit to remember it's syntax. Javascript, however I'm familiar with and use all the time. Thanks, Rick On Saturday, June 14, 2014 2:04:07 AM UTC-4, Bruce Van Allen wrote: Hi All, Check this out: This article describes JavaScript for Automation, a new feature in OS X 10.10. https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/releasenotes/ InterapplicationCommunication/RN-JavaScriptForAutomation/index.html Many possibilities here. Best Regards, - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email sup...@barebones.com javascript: rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+un...@googlegroups.com javascript:. To post to this group, send email to bbe...@googlegroups.com javascript:. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com.
Javascript for OS X automation
Hi All, Check this out: This article describes JavaScript for Automation, a new feature in OS X 10.10. https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/releasenotes/InterapplicationCommunication/RN-JavaScriptForAutomation/index.html Many possibilities here. Best Regards, - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com.
Re: Javascript for OS X automation
I was excited to see this as well and hoped to see integration with BBEdit. I don't use applescript enough in BBEdit to remember it's syntax. Javascript, however I'm familiar with and use all the time. Thanks, Rick On Saturday, June 14, 2014 2:04:07 AM UTC-4, Bruce Van Allen wrote: Hi All, Check this out: This article describes JavaScript for Automation, a new feature in OS X 10.10. https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/releasenotes/InterapplicationCommunication/RN-JavaScriptForAutomation/index.html Many possibilities here. Best Regards, - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com.
Re: Javascript for OS X automation
Apple did this once before, years ago... but they gave no support, and then they quickly lost interest. They didn't even provide the JS-OSA library; it came from Late Night Software. There was little documentation and it was a struggle, but I managed to do a few useful things. On your other point, there _is_ internal support for JS automation within BBEdit -- at least it still works in BBEdit 9, where I use a whole bunch of JavaScripted client-side includes for building web pages. (Client-side meaning they run at development time, not on the end-user's machine.) I could never find any documentation for it, just a bare mention in an old BBEdit manual that only showed the process for AppleScript. I was able to figure it out by experimentation. Frankly, though, I wouldn't set up any kind of client-side (devel-time) includes for web pages now; the new ones I'm doing are all PHP on the server instead. I still use the old ones because I already wrote them. Let's hope Apple supports JavaScript system automation in a more serious way than they did last time around. Frankly it was pretty half-assed. On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Rick Yentzer ryent...@gmail.com wrote: I was excited to see this as well and hoped to see integration with BBEdit. I don't use applescript enough in BBEdit to remember it's syntax. Javascript, however I'm familiar with and use all the time. Thanks, Rick On Saturday, June 14, 2014 2:04:07 AM UTC-4, Bruce Van Allen wrote: Hi All, Check this out: This article describes JavaScript for Automation, a new feature in OS X 10.10. https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/releasenotes/ InterapplicationCommunication/RN-JavaScriptForAutomation/index.html Many possibilities here. Best Regards, - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com.
