On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 06:27 AM, Geoffrey Heard wrote:
Me too, I hope so. With external scripting languages, it is almost impossible to manipulate style and formatting which are crucial when we use a word processor as a word processor. If an *intelligible* tagged text format will be adopted by NW X, perhaps it will not be so hard to control style/formatting with an external program though.At 12:15 AM +0900 24/10/02, Kino wrote:I hope NW does have its own internal scripting language and that it does work with an external, cross platform scripter.
But at least perl is not so verbose and wordy as AppleScript. And perl is cross-platform, so much more worth trying than AS, I feel.
In my view, to grow, Nisus needs to become cross platform. The platform wars are hotting up, and NW running on Linux, for example, might find a useful niche. Running on Windows is the other step, of course, and again there could be a useful niche market.I'm afraid porting a Cocoa application to another platform is not easy. Many functionalities of a Cocoa app seem to depend on frameworks which are not be found in another platform.
A further consideration: I am told VB Script makes AppleScript look a bit second rate. But I wouldn't know from personal experience!
Neither do I ;-)
When thinking scripting, I always revert to recalling the demonstration of Wingz spreadsheet -- in effect, the demonstrator explained, Wingz was just a big heap of scripts. You could script ANYTHING in it because its language was its scripting language and what you scripted because a "native" part of the program.Fascinating. But... what runs the scripts??? What is the prime mover of the scripts? Was Wingz something similar to a Java application?
Fascinating.
Kino
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