AppleScript + AppleScriptObjC + Interface Builder
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 1:40 am
Back when RunRev was starting out refurbishing MetaCard in the early-mid 2000s, and I was busy not hearing about them at all, when I wasn't still running HyperCard in macOS X "Classic" mode, I did a fair amount of messing around with AppleScript + AppleScriptObjC + Interface Builder (I guess around 2006/7?)... it was NOT the HyperCard replacement I'd hoped it would've been, but I sort of guessed it wouldn't be.
I'd say AppleScript is xTalk-Like but not really xTalk. Kevin Calhoun of Apple / HyperCard fame once said AppleScript is actually "LISP in disguise". I don't know about that but it's not quite xTalk enough for me and mixing in Objective C objects was hard for me to grasp at the time (I'm much more comfortable with the concepts now).
Around then the economy crashed, my 3rd son was born, and I had some other things going on in my life and just sort of drifted away from coding for awhile until around 2014 when I discovered LiveCode existed.
For a short time I messed around with combining the two, AppleScript/ASObjC + LiveCode communicating back and forth via AppleScript / AppleEvents. It sort of worked enough that I was able to make a Mac MenuBar App with the combo, although blocking (waiting for "the result") was an issue at times. Then Livecode Builder came along and basically superseded the need for that.
I'd say AppleScript is xTalk-Like but not really xTalk. Kevin Calhoun of Apple / HyperCard fame once said AppleScript is actually "LISP in disguise". I don't know about that but it's not quite xTalk enough for me and mixing in Objective C objects was hard for me to grasp at the time (I'm much more comfortable with the concepts now).
Around then the economy crashed, my 3rd son was born, and I had some other things going on in my life and just sort of drifted away from coding for awhile until around 2014 when I discovered LiveCode existed.
For a short time I messed around with combining the two, AppleScript/ASObjC + LiveCode communicating back and forth via AppleScript / AppleEvents. It sort of worked enough that I was able to make a Mac MenuBar App with the combo, although blocking (waiting for "the result") was an issue at times. Then Livecode Builder came along and basically superseded the need for that.