[TxMt] TM & UBB code some questions

[Thijs van der Vossen]

On Jan 25, 2005, at 19:28, Allan Odgaard wrote:
> There need to be some way to call TM actions, and I'm sorry to say so, 
> but I think AS is the correct answer.
>
> AS integrates with other applications which one may use in combination 
> with TextMate, like Automator, Script Editor (recording scripts) etc. 
> and it should have support for the platform specific “structures” like 
> unicode strings, file objects, images etc.
>
> Basically though, TM is not adding support for apple script, but apple 
> events, and in theory, one could provide another scripting language 
> with the inter-application communication capabilities which currently 
> makes AS a prime candidate.
>
> So providing TM with AS support does not take away the ability to 
> write functionality in Ruby, but if that Ruby program wants to e.g. 
> place the caret within TM, it'll need either to go through the 
> osascript command, or someone should write an extension to Ruby which 
> allows it to send apple events.

IMHO Support for AS is the only sensible thing to do. For Python, there 
already is an the Appscript module, see: 
http://www.pythonmac.org/wiki/AppscriptModule for more information and 
http://www.pythonmac.org/wiki/AppleScript for other options.

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