Actually, abc4mac _is_ AppleScriptable, although it doesn't support
the full BarFly superset of abc. There are a couple of 'droplets'
in the abc4mac distribution for building pdfs by invoking abc4mac
and then GhostView, for example.
wil
Phil Taylor wrote:
> Sure, the idea of BarFly popping up unexpectedly and opening windows
> in front of an unsuspecting user is daft. But, there's no reason not
> to do this while running in the background. You don't normally use the
> program in the background except to play through a whole file of tunes
> while you use the machine for something else, but there's nothing that
> BarFly does (apart from interacting with the user) which requires it
> to open windows or run in the foreground.
>
> It would also be possible to get around the problem of transmitting
> high-level events from a different platform by means of a "watch folder".
> I have an encryption program which does this; the user designates a
> directory as his watch folder, and the program checks this for new
> files every few seconds, and automatically encrypts anything it finds
> there.
>
> It would be relatively easy to write a faceless background version of
> BarFly which would turn any abc files dropped into the watch folder
> into pictures or MIDI files without any user intervention. That would
> work locally, or (given the necessary file permissions) over the net.
>
> Phil Taylor
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