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Dave McGary <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:55:28 -0800
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Hi Lloyd,

If you want to consider all of your AppleScript options before making
a decision, you may want to look at Frontier 10 first.  Once a product
of Userland, Frontier has been let lose into the wild and is now an
Open Source project on SourceForge.com

All Mac versions of Frontier include support for AppleScript and
AppleEvents.  You can, for example, run Frontier, create a new script,
record events, make the Finder jump through some hoops, stop
recording, and run the new script in Frontier to redo what you
recorded.

Full support for AppleEvents, and the ability to process the result,
including errors, make Frontier a pleasure to work with.

And you can make HyperCard-type GUIs with MacBird, a stand alone app
that is included in the full Macintosh distributions of Userland
Frontier 4.3.2 and 5.0.

Frontier 10 is coming along fine, but I suggest staying with the even
release numbers (10.0a1, Developer Preview 1, AKA 10.0a6 [2006-02-16
10:14], etc), since there is lots of experimental code in the odd
release numbers (10.1, etc).

Frontier 10 info
http://frontierkernel.org/

Released builds
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120666&package_id=131571

The root database for Frontier, which is not included in the Frontier
10 release, and is required for use, as well as the entirety of the
public releases of Frontier 4.3.2 (AKA "Aretha" - Mac 7/8/9 only) and
Frontier 5 (Mac 7/8/9 and Windows) are available on the Userland
archive FTP server.
http://static.userland.com/archives/1997/userland/
HQX files are Mac files, Zip files are Windows files!

MacBird is included in the full distribution HQX file (in the UserLand
Utilities folder).

If you want to stick with current OSX commercial products, the full
Userland Frontier kernel (complete with Root database) is available
from Userland under the name Radio.  Do not believe the hype, you will
not be forced to build a weblog with it, but you can if you want to
(and they give you free space on the internet for a year as part of
the $40 bargain).
http://radio.userland.com/

You can even use Manila if you want to.  It also has the Userland
Frontier kernel in it.  At $1099, Manila is not so cheap...
http://manila.userland.com/

And you can use Perl, or even MacPerl with Frontier.

Just an idea.

--Dave

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