I used to write standalone applications in Applescript Studio and subsequently jumped on the AppleScriptObjectiveC bandwagon to write a few standalone apps. But that was quite a few years ago, I’m completely out of the loop.
So here’s the question. Are applications written in ApplescripObjectiveC still a thing? An online search yields very little results. I tried creating a new project in Xcode but couldn’t see any mention of AppleScript.
They are, but since Apple removed the project templates in Xcode 14, using Xcode is less of a thing. Unless you want to build your UI with the Interface Editor or need to mix in some Objective-C to work around ASObjC’s weaknesses, or just have a humongous project (although AppleScript may not be the best choice for something like that), you don’t really need to use Xcode. I think the templates from Xcode 13 can still be added to current versions, if you insist.
Thanks for getting back to me. Yeah, I’m looking to build a UI and add persistence to a small app (a custom image exporter for Adobe Illustrator).
I managed to download the Xcode 13 template. Any idea where to place it? The folder structure for templates has changed dramatically in Xcode 16.4
I don’t have Xcode 16, currently I’m running Xcode 15 in Sonoma, where the templates would be placed in a custom templates folder in your user’s Library folder at ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/Templates/. The template folder can be named however you want, such as “My Templates”, where it gets shown in the template chooser.
At the time there were a few articles about the structure of the TemplateInfo.plist and creating your own templates, but I don’t know if any have been updated or they still work. Breaking earlier stuff seems to be typical with Xcode, which I pretty much gave up on a while ago when Apple started pushing storyboards and the current mess known as Swift.
Script Debugger/Editor work fairly well to manually create the UI (and there is Shane’s Dialog Toolkit), although I haven’t had the need to try anything very large or complex.
I wrote various applications in AppleScript and sell them in Mac App Store.
Uni Detector
Kamenoko ( now not on sale)
eBook : Let’s make Mac app with AppleScript on Xcode for Xcode 14
https://piyomarusoft.booth.pm/items/4619073
