[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Concerns about the Python library appscript

2025-08-25 Thread Jack Jansen via Pythonmac-SIG
[Jack donning his boring-old-fart hat] The thing is, when Apple came up with this stuff in the late 1990s, if developers had adopted it it would have made their life _so much easier_. Because really a lot of the business logic of their own app could have been expressed in OSA, leading to much c

[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Concerns about the Python library appscript

2025-08-25 Thread Greg Ewing
On 25/08/25 7:56 am, Jack Jansen via Pythonmac-SIG wrote: But the last two things I wanted to automate failed utterly. Photos still has something of a dictionary, but you can do little more than control a slide show. No way to do usable searches (like “any photo taken in such-and-such an area

[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Concerns about the Python library appscript

2025-08-25 Thread glyph
> On Aug 24, 2025, at 12:56 PM, Jack Jansen wrote: > > Thanks for the positive news! Glad that I could share a small sliver of a silver lining :) > I really loved OSA at the time, and I’ve used it extensively. > > But the last two things I wanted to automate failed utterly. Photos still has