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Making Your Applications Scriptable

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Scripting and Mac OS X

Mac OS X includes scripting as a feature that spans the Blue Box/Yellow Box divide. That means you can write an AppleScript script on the Blue Box using the Script Editor application, run it, and have it send commands to a Yellow Box application. A script can thereby take advantage of the strengths of applications on either side of the divide.

You could, for example, have a script that processes a scanned photograph using Adobe PhotoShop on the Blue Box and transfers that photograph to an Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF) application running on the Yellow Box, which stores it in a database used by a WebObjects application. You can also run scripts that get data as well as send it; you might, for instance, have a script that fetches the sender addresses of new e-mail in a MailViewer mailbox and responds to them using Claris Emailer.

In the first Customer Release you are not able to compose AppleScript scripts in the Yellow Box or send AppleScript commands from the Yellow Box to the Blue Box. These features will be added in future releases.


Making Your Applications Scriptable

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