Re: [MacPerl] Mac::Glue

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 16:43 -0400 1999.08.26, strider corinth wrote:
>>I think [the syntax] is reasonable.
>
>Yeah, me too. It's really pretty AppleScript-like, if you take out all the
>parens and brackets. It isn't entirely clear from the pod what object
>contains what (since it uses the four-letter code for each object instead
>of the object's name, and one has to go do a find for it), but other than
>that I'm pretty happy with it.

Oh, right, that is on my TODO list: fixing up some of those "links" in the
docs.  Patches are welcome.  :)

>Well, I uninstalled it manually and reinstalled it from the .tar instead of
>the untarred directory, and it liked that better, I guess. That broke
>something in DB_File, but I think that was my fault for a half-finished
>CPAN install of its newer version, and was easily fixed.

DB_File cannot be installed from the newer version.  A quick glance at the
contents of the DB_File archive shows a DB_File.xs file.  It needs to be
compiled.


>PS- I was just thinking... it'd be really cool to have a script that'd take
>an AppleScript for a certain program and, using its glue, translate that
>into AppleEvents. Out of my league in time ( and maybe ability ;), but
>that'd be a cool project if someone wanted one.

We would need a program to parse either 1. AppleScript or 2. a compiled
AppleScript.  I'd be happy to work on the part of translating the parsed
form into Perl if someone would do the part of translating the AppleScript
into a parsed form.

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