[Openmcl-devel] AppleScript

[Steve Núñez]

Thanks. 

Has anyone looked at F-Script? I discovered it while looking around for ways
I might script this application. I don't have any experience with it, but it
looks interesting:

    http://www.fscript.org/

    - Steve

On 12/05/09 12:00 AM, "Daniel Dickison" <danieldickison at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm the author of cl-applescript, and you're right that it has been
> pretty much abandoned (the project I had originally wrote that library
> for went defunct).  However, I believe it still works if you only have
> simple AppleScript needs, with the following caveats:
> 1. All AS is executed using the osascript command line interface,
> which means:
> a. You can't construct AppleEvents programatically (you need to
> construct script strings).
> b. Every call has to compile the AppleScript from scratch, which is
> slow.
> c. The entire return value is stored as a string before parsing, so
> you wouldn't want to do huge queries.
> 2. Parsing dictionaries hasn't been implemented.
> 
> The patch for CCL bug 216 should no longer be necessary if you're
> using CCL 1.3 (I should update that page).  If you would like to use
> the library but you need dictionary parsing, I think it should be
> pretty easy to implement and I'll be happy to help you with that.
> 
> That said, Scripting Bridge is probably the way to go.  You'll be
> writing Cocoa code (presumably via the Clozure Objective-C bridge),
> but I believe you can use it to script any application, regardless of
> whether it's Cocoa or Carbon.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> On May 11, 2009, at 4:40 AM, Steve Núñez wrote:
> 
>> G¹Day Gentlemen,
>> 
>> What¹s the Œstate of the art¹ for interfacing with Carbon
>> applications exposing only an AppleScript interface? I found one
>> possibility mentioned here:
>> 
>> http://www.clozure.com/pipermail/openmcl-devel/2008-October/
>> 008618.html
>> 
>> But this seems applicable only to Cocoa applications. There¹s also
>> cl-applescript:
>> 
>> http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-applescript/
>> 
>> But that project appears to have been abandoned. I¹m trying to
>> determine the feasibility of heavily customising MS Entourage, and
>> would like to use CCL for most of the heavy lifting.
>> 
>> Regards,
>>     - Steve
>> 
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