Comments on: MacOS X 10.5 Leopard, From a Developer’s Perspective http://blog.blueforestresearch.com/2007/11/04/macos-x-105-leopard-from-a-developers-perspective/ Software development at Blue Forest Research, LLC. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:54:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: has http://blog.blueforestresearch.com/2007/11/04/macos-x-105-leopard-from-a-developers-perspective/#comment-3 has Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:04:18 +0000 http://blog.blueforestresearch.com/2007/11/04/macos-x-105-leopard-from-a-developers-perspective/#comment-3 "Leopard also supports Python through its ” Scripting Bridge Support”, which provides a way for Python apps to directly control scriptable MacOS X applications." I think you're confusing Bridge Support - metadata files that make it easier to generate framework bindings for PyObjC, RubyCocoa, etc. - and Scripting Bridge, which is a Cocoa API for sending Apple events from ObjC and other languages with ObjC bindings. "the included “Scripting Bridge” allows Objective C, Javascript, Ruby and Python applications to more easily control scriptable applications. Perl, unfortunately, gets no Scripting Bridge love" Third-party application scripting support for ObjC, Ruby and Python has been available for a while now and is definitely worth exploring even if you're on Leopard, e.g. see my sig. As for Perl, I haven't yet tried SB via PerlObjC or CamelBones so I don't know if that'll work or not; however, Leopard does include a new version of Mac::Glue that now works under i386 as well as PPC (the version in 10.4 was broken on Intel boxes). Admittedly, Mac::Glue does have a few flaws (though Scripting Bridge isn't exactly brilliant either from what I've seen), but the developer is hoping to make improvements so take a look if you're a Perl fan. HTH has -- http://appscript.sourceforge.net http://rb-appscript.rubyforge.org “Leopard also supports Python through its ” Scripting Bridge Support”, which provides a way for Python apps to directly control scriptable MacOS X applications.”

I think you’re confusing Bridge Support - metadata files that make it easier to generate framework bindings for PyObjC, RubyCocoa, etc. - and Scripting Bridge, which is a Cocoa API for sending Apple events from ObjC and other languages with ObjC bindings.

“the included “Scripting Bridge” allows Objective C, Javascript, Ruby and Python applications to more easily control scriptable applications. Perl, unfortunately, gets no Scripting Bridge love”

Third-party application scripting support for ObjC, Ruby and Python has been available for a while now and is definitely worth exploring even if you’re on Leopard, e.g. see my sig.

As for Perl, I haven’t yet tried SB via PerlObjC or CamelBones so I don’t know if that’ll work or not; however, Leopard does include a new version of Mac::Glue that now works under i386 as well as PPC (the version in 10.4 was broken on Intel boxes). Admittedly, Mac::Glue does have a few flaws (though Scripting Bridge isn’t exactly brilliant either from what I’ve seen), but the developer is hoping to make improvements so take a look if you’re a Perl fan.

HTH

has
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http://appscript.sourceforge.net
http://rb-appscript.rubyforge.org

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