(I suspect the reply was intended to be sent to the list...) > On Jan 20, 2018, at 11:14, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I thought it was funny that 10 years back I was writing that I had no use at >> all for AppleScript in my workflow and that now I could not live without AS, >> even though I had been on a Mac since 94. > > I've used AppleScript maybe a half dozen times. It's always a VERY PAINFUL > process because there is really no good way to learn it
I could not agree more. But as you wrote, that's the only existing solution that works with Apple Events. So we're stuck. Regarding the learning process, I've been through learning English, then Japanese, and I'm starting Chinese (planning to do Arabic one day, when I'm in a place where I can actually use it). The only solution is to just write. Write until you feel like a native. I think I had this discussion with Christopher Stone on ASUL about becoming a "native" writer. Most of us don't do automation everyday, so it is very hard to become fluent, just because of the sheer amount of quirks in the language. Because I was as frustrated as you, I decided to just bite the bullet. Everything I could automate, I'd write a script for that. The shortest are things like what I posted yesterday, but I have longer things that support my whole workflow. And I need to keep writing scripts so that the day I go back to maintaining my bigger scripts I actually understand what's written. One thing is, it seriously looks like AS has very little future on the Mac, but I can't imagine Apple totally dumping automation, so I stick to AS until we know for sure what the future will be like and then I'll move on. Jean-Christophe Helary ----------------------------------------------- http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
