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Re: [MacPerl] from Applescript to AEBuild



On Thu, Apr 17, 1997 5:19 PM, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher
<mailto:neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
>I don't think AppleScript can be decompiled easily. If you want to do
something
>AppleScriptesque (some people find AEBuild more convenient), it might be
better
>to create a Perlish dialect of AppleScript, that is, to parse terminology
>resources (doesn't somebody already have code for this?) and figure out a
>way to naturally map the terminology into a Perlish syntax.
>

My AETE decompiler is at 

<ftp://ftp.ee.gatech.edu/pub/mac/Widgets/aete.converter_1.1.sea.hqx>

Version 1.1 gets the flags right, but still doesn't go out and read the
aeut if it needs to. Before I fixed the flags problem, every parameter was
described as an optional enumerated list and none of the properties were
ever readonly.

later,

---Dave---

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