Interesting too, because Applescript is a kind of offshoot of HyperTalk. It was
my impression that Applescript was a way to get the whole operating system and
applications to work like Hypercard did. It was a great idea, and is still
incredibly useful, but the severe downside to Applescript is
Just came across this in AppleScript:
tell application System Events
set {procesList, pidList} to the {name, unix id} of (every
process whose name contains Myapp_action_download)
end tell
There are multiple niceties here: in-line list filtration, multiple
simultaneous property
Hi Geoff,
While this looks very nifty, it definitely isn't easier to program.
LiveCode is much easier (IMHO). We should never be able to do this with
LiveCode, simply because this isn't how xTalk languages function.
One important difference is that AppleScript uses typed variables and
even
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Mark Schonewille
m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote:
Hi Geoff,
While this looks very nifty, it definitely isn't easier to program.
LiveCode is much easier (IMHO). We should never be able to do this with
LiveCode, simply because this isn't how xTalk
