Would it be possible to hard code every interface property from Interface Builder ??. (No XCode)
I do understand its properly not a good approach but I do believe hard coding make the learning
more fun (more difficult but in return greater value of learning).
Would it be possible to load a Nib (MainMenu.nib) to be used in AppleScriptObjC and hard code the linking without XCode ??.
If I have a applet that call NSWindow from Script Library and the applet is stay open. If I close the window the app will still be open. Could I use applicationShouldTerminateAfterLastWindowClosed on applet or should I use it in handler of Script Library ??
use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions
property ca : current application
set nc to ca's NSNotificationCenter's defaultCenter()
nc's addObserver:me selector:"windowWillClose:" |name|:"NSWindowWillCloseNotification" object:(missing value) -- or the NSWindow
on windowWillClose:param
set theWindow to param's object
my (nc's removeObserver:me |name|:"NSWindowWillCloseNotification" object:(missing value))
display notification "A window of the current application will be closed: " & (theWindow's title as text)
-- tell me to quit
end windowWillClose:
@Shane
I have look at your code in Dialog Toolkit and I truly like to learn to make UI.
I do know little more today and yesterday to thanks again.
@db123
Thanks to much… (This code I will save… so useful)
theWindow variable is a NSWindow… part of the code I add to the applet and it works.
set theWindow to display URL theURL window size {1024, 850}
set notificationCenter to current application's NSNotificationCenter's defaultCenter()
notificationCenter's addObserver:me selector:"windowWillClose:" |name|:"NSWindowWillCloseNotification" object:theWindow -- or the NSWindow
on windowWillClose:param
set theWindow to param's object
my (notificationCenter's removeObserver:me |name|:"NSWindowWillCloseNotification" object:(missing value))
tell me to quit
end windowWillClose:
on windowWillClose:param
set theWindow to param's object
my (notificationCenter's removeObserver:me |name|:"NSWindowWillCloseNotification" object:theWindow)
tell me to quit
end windowWillClose:
But it doesn’t really matter, because the app will be closed anyway.
One of the biggest issues is the sheer amount of code required for anything complicated, and the fact that AS simply doesn’t cope with very long scripts.
Lets think loud for a moment…
Apple could have chosen a better approach, I will give you 2 examples.
Approach 1)
They could have included class and properties to build UI
ex.
make window with rect {0,0,300,300} at center
input textfield {myTitle,myText,{20,20,100,25}}
input button {myTitle,{20,40,100,25},myActionClick}
end make window
or
tell application “Script UI”
set theWindow to make window with properties {title:“myTitle”,rect:{0,0,300,300}}
tell theWindow
set button to {title:“myTitle”,rect:{x,y,w,h},attribute:{font:“Menlo”,size:14,color:“colorYellow”}}
set textfield to {title:“myTitle”,rect:{x,y,w,h},placeHolder:“Type some text…”}
end tell
Approach 2)
There any parameters in node graph could be a user input in UI. When the script is compiled
it also build the user interface dynamically. So when a user run a compiled script it also
has the UI elements. People who are programmer have other approaches they take to make things done. The power of scripting is to take a person without programming knowledge to do same things a programmer do in some sense. But scripting is also very useful to know if we like to make test cases for a bigger task or ideas. Scripting is also useful for doing things with less code.
Instead of invented a new approach of Automator to do something other have done already.
Visual node graph have been around before 2008 and Automator was released in 2007.
Sidefx Houdini have used it before 2000.
I mean theClass could be any Class or Instance Method of AppKit
property theClass : missing value
set theWindow to make new theClass with properties {title:"myTitle", rect:{0, 0, 300, 300}}
on make new theClass with properties theProperties as record : {}
return theProperties
end make
{its title of theWindow, its rect of theWindow}
