At 10:28 pm +0100 7/8/06, has wrote: >John Delacour wrote: > >>I think we've all learned to live with AppleScript as it is > >Hey, who this "WE"? Whatchoo think I been doing the last two years? ;p Reinventing Usertalk? I'm not bothered about language. What concerns me is the increasing stupidity of the applications being produced, which require the user to go back to nursery school and spend his time frigging about with mice and menus. Here <http://www.x-tables.eu/>, for example, we have a new spreadsheet program. Very nice, and no doubt a bit prettier than Multiplan. Do your efforts provide any crutches for this lame creation? Do they enable the user to add a scripts menu to the app, as Frontier did, or to understand Apple events, no matter what mechanism you use to generate them? What contribution have you made to enable the author of the mailer you've only just abandoned to replicate its unequalled power in Cocoa? And is your switch to Mail.crap a signal that we shall soon be able to get the properties of the message in the the front window by some simple magic? AppScript, Mac::Carbon, Ruby bridges -- fine! What difference does it make if nothing is listening? JD