{"id":11689,"date":"2015-07-14T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11689"},"modified":"2015-07-14T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T15:37:00","slug":"appleeventbridge-native-applescripting-support-for-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/appleeventbridge-native-applescripting-support-for-swift\/","title":{"rendered":"AppleEventBridge: Native AppleScripting Support for Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lists.apple.com\/archives\/cocoa-dev\/2015\/Jul\/msg00196.html\">Hamish Sanderson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/lists.apple.com\/archives\/cocoa-dev\/2015\/Jul\/msg00196.html\">\n<p>In light of OS X 10.11 addressing some longstanding deficiencies in NSAppleEventDescriptor, I&rsquo;ve been dusting off a fork of my old objc-appscript project, now renamed AppleEventBridge, modernizing and extending it both to take advantage of improvements to ObjC in the last few years and to add native support for Apple&rsquo;s new Swift language:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/hhas\/appleeventbridge\/\">https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/hhas\/appleeventbridge\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike Apple&rsquo;s flawed Scripting Bridge and JavaScript for Automation, AEB aims to provide application scripting capabilities and compatibility that equal (if not better) AppleScript&rsquo;s own, along with superior documentation and developer tool support.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamish Sanderson: In light of OS X 10.11 addressing some longstanding deficiencies in NSAppleEventDescriptor, I&rsquo;ve been dusting off a fork of my old objc-appscript project, now renamed AppleEventBridge, modernizing and extending it both to take advantage of improvements to ObjC in the last few years and to add native support for Apple&rsquo;s new Swift language: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[159,30,1199,74,71,901],"class_list":["post-11689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-applescript","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-11","tag-opensource","tag-programming","tag-swift-programming-language"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11690,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689\/revisions\/11690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}