Jack Campin wrote:
>> my Tune Finder is often asked for tunes that have ABC that's not
>> compatible with the tools that my site uses. Barfly extensions
>> are a good example of this. I can't very well adopt Barfly as
>> one of my site's tools, because it is a GUI tool, and those don't
>> work all that well when called by CGI scripts.
>
>BarFly is AppleScriptable, isn't it? So, if you've got a Mac on
>your network somewhere, you should be able to tell it to:
>
>- open the file
>- go into split-screen mode
>- do Print Preview
>- save as PICT
BarFly is NOT AppleScriptable. As with much of Apple's work,
AppleScript is ridiculously easy for the user (AppleScripts
read like English instructions), but insanely complicated for
the programmer. It may get done one of these days, but don't
hold your breath.
The other problem would be in figuring out how to write a CGI
to run on a unix machine which can assemble and transmit
AppleEvents to a remote Mac. I'm sure it can be done, but
I haven't a clue how.
>and then your conversion tools can take it from there. (The one
>problem this won't fix is if the author expected landscape format
>or some other offbeat viewer setting, and didn't say so in a %%Bfly
>line). Maybe BarFly might analogously be able to save its playback
>as a QuickTime movie someday?
It can do that already. Standard MIDI and AIFF audio too.
>This kind of thing might be a useful route for other platforms;
>I presume there's some way to drive (at least recent) Windows
>applications from Visual Basic.
>
I'll let the Windows experts comment on that.
Phil Taylor
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