On 7 Dec, 03:58, John J. [email protected]
wrote:
Thanks has,
some nice tips there!!
I spent some time last weekend reading about and working through some
AppleScript material.
It has tiny moments of wow, and lots and lots of uggggghhh
Feels about as fun as COBOL and should probably be renamed to APPOL.
I’m not a fan of it.
Won’t argue with those sentiments, but until the Ruby community builds
up enough knowledge and experience to stand on its own in this area,
it’s hard to avoid AppleScript completely. Folks like myself try to do
our bit in bringing that knowledge across, but there’s a lot to do and
more bodies are needed.
I’d also suggest reading the appscript documentation <http://rb-
appscript.rubyforge.org/doc/appscript-manual/index.html>, which
provides a brief introduction and tutorial to general application
scripting principles. I realise it’s rather thin and less than
brilliantly written (comments, criticisms, and requests and
suggestions for improvements would be hugely appreciated, btw) but
hopefully it’ll be of some help in getting your head around the
concepts involved.
Anyway, after digging deep enough, GUI scripting with Applescript
will require the user to enable GUI scripting.
I’m still not clear why you believe you have to use GUI Scripting, as
opposed to iTunes’ own scripting interface, but unless you can say
exactly what it is your script needs to do I can’t offer any more
specific advice on that front.
HTH
has