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Mac-AppleScript-Glue-0.03
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Changes for version 0.03 - 2002-09-14

  • removed usage of osascript(1) and replaced it with Dan Sugalski's Mac::AppleScript, which does the same thing but better and faster (you'll need to install Mac::AppleScript first, from CPAN)
  • simplified the notation of constants and simple object-references -- instead of passing a reference to a string (\'true'), now you can pass a string enclosed in angle-brackets ('<true>') and it will be passed along verbatim to AppleScript
  • added an alternate calling form to Mac::AppleScript::Object->objref(), in which you can pass a pair of class and parameters (file => "foo") instead of having to clump it all into one string ("file => \"foo\"")
  • added the option to specify a remote machine when creating a Mac::AppleScript::Application object (uses an "eppc:" URL)
  • removed the SCRIPT_RESULT and EXEC debugging tags; now the SCRIPT tag debugs both the script and the result, and EXEC is unneeded since we don't exec osascript(1) anymore
  • tried to make the AppleScript a little less verbose, since it seems that Adobe InDesign has problems with object-references that are too complicated
  • fixed the internal number-recognizer so that "5.5.5" isn't thought to be a valid number ;)
  • cleaned up a bunch of the examples in "scripts/"
  • added a pod-tester to the test suite, as seen in brian d foy's Mac::iTunes
  • added pre-requisites to the Makefile
  • added copyright info
  • various fixes to the POD documentation for clarity, etc.

Modules

Mac::AppleScript::Glue
allows AppleScript to be written in Perl
Mac::AppleScript::Glue::Application
an application to send AppleScript to
Mac::AppleScript::Glue::Object
represents an AppleScript object reference

Other files