Hi Folks, A new build of JavaScript OSA is available for download. http://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/JavaScriptOSA/jsDownload.html Check out the Project...
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Jul 10, 2000 4:54 pm
Hi Folks, A new beta build is available for downloading. This build addresses some serious stability issues in the 1.0b1 and 1.0b2 builds. Release Notes: ...
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Jul 23, 2000 2:34 am
Hi Folks, A new JavaScript OSA build is now available for downloading. This build brings improvements to JavaScript's garbage collection making it possible ...
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Jul 24, 2000 5:20 am
Hi Folks, Due to problems found with the b4 build, it has been withdrawn and a new b5 build is now available. b4 was very unstable for scripts that made heavy...
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Jul 26, 2000 7:12 pm
Hi Folks, Well I feel that the JavaScript OSA is all but ready for release as a 1.0 product. The items remaining to be done are better/proper documentation...
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss
jacobkm@...
Jul 26, 2000 10:07 pm
Mark -- First off, thanks for your hard work on this amazing project. JSOSA is truly a gift to the Mac community. ... I'm absolutely drooling over the...
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Jul 27, 2000 7:18 pm
... Interestingly, I had to change the way MacOS exceptions are thrown in the upcoming b5 build to supply the kind of information you looking for. Currently...
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Chris Ryland
cpr@...
Jul 27, 2000 7:24 pm
Mark-- I stand in awe of what you've done with JSOSA. Still, being a Python fan (bigot?), and thinking that Python will soon overtake all the other scripting...
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss
jacobkm@...
Jul 27, 2000 7:48 pm
... Just thinking about a PyOSA makes me feel a great rush of adrenaline... Seriuosly though -- how much do two different OSA components have in common? That...
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Chris Ryland
cpr@...
Jul 27, 2000 7:55 pm
Jacob-- I don't think it's a question of common code, but of common experience (which Mark now certainly has). But I suppose a larger question looms like the...
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss
jacobkm@...
Jul 27, 2000 8:18 pm
... Ahh... but would Mark want to undertake a PyOSA project? The amazing thing about the open source community is that amazing things get done that no one...
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Chris Ryland
cpr@...
Jul 27, 2000 8:22 pm
I have it on very good word that AS will be central to MacOS X. But that still doesn't guarantee that things won't change under the wraps. Apple won't expose...
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss
jacobkm@...
Jul 27, 2000 8:31 pm
... What I see -- and I could be totally wrong -- is that AppleScript users are, for the most part, the same type of people who will jump at the chance to...
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Chris Ryland
cpr@...
Jul 27, 2000 8:39 pm
I guess we should take this off-list, but how in the world would shell scripting give you the same level of control as AppleScripting, unless there's some...
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Jul 27, 2000 8:41 pm
... I think this issue bears some discussion. A couple of folks have contacted me asking if I would do a Python OSA component and I've heard from a few people...
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Jul 27, 2000 8:55 pm
Hi Folks, Slowly, people are beginning to develop software based on JavaScript OSA. I would like to offer a badge for their web sites that can be used to...
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Chris Ryland
cpr@...
Jul 27, 2000 9:39 pm
Mark-- 2 - That's true. 3 - True. The cross-section of people who deeply understand JavaScript and MacOS scripting is probably very small. Ditto (perhaps even...
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Jul 27, 2000 11:30 pm
... Given that Python already has most of the OS-level bindings that it needs, the AppleEvent bindings in JSOSA probably are not of much value. The important...
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Jul 27, 2000 11:52 pm
Hi Folks, Yet another beta build is ready for downloading. This one introduces more low-memory bug fixes and a new MacOS.MacOSError object which is thrown...
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Jul 28, 2000 4:07 pm
Hi Again, Spurred by yesterday's discussions on Python, I went and had a close look at the Python API. Sadly, a PythonOSA component for MacOS 8/9 is going to...
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Jul 28, 2000 4:08 pm
Hi Folks, The last functional area missing from JSOSA, I think, is support for AppleEvent whose clauses. For those not familiar with AppleScript, whose ...
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss
jacobkm@...
Jul 28, 2000 4:49 pm
... Mark -- This looks good to me. However, I think I need a little clarification. Are the arguments passed to the whose clauses strings or actual variables?...
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Aug 3, 2000 3:41 pm
Hi Folks, There have been just over 5000 downloads of various beta builds of JavaScript OSA. To be sure, there are many repeat downloads, but its also clear...
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guy hail
listguy@...
Aug 5, 2000 1:45 am
... I love it. Thank you. I'm planning to buy your script editor because you've developed this plug in. I'm using the plug-in to work on javascript for a class...
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Sandro Bilbeisi
sandrino68@...
Aug 8, 2000 11:33 pm
Hi all, I the Javascript 1.0b6 distribution there is a folder called "For Thrill Seekers", which contains a version of the component called "JavaScript.qtx". ...
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Aug 9, 2000 4:13 am
... This is a developmental MacOS X native build of JavaScript OSA. If you have access to MacOS X DP4, you can follow the instructions on ...
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Aug 16, 2000 4:51 pm
Hi Folks, Well its been several weeks since the release of JavaScript OSA 1.0b6 and I've not received any bug reports. I'm planning on turning the current ...
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Aldo Bergamini
aaberga@...
Aug 16, 2000 7:32 pm
... What will this mean for the 'end developer/scripter'? The possibility to write extensions -cool- or the possibility to script at least some Mozilla...
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Mark Alldritt
alldritt@...
Aug 17, 2000 3:33 pm
... I anticipate that any Mozilla XPCOM plugin that does not require other Mozilla services would work from JavaScript OSA. The possibilities are, well,...
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Aldo Bergamini
aaberga@...
Aug 17, 2000 5:19 pm
... Mark, this is the point I was zeroing to ... It's better than dreamed about. I hope you will succeed with not too great efforts. Please keep the community...
