Re: [Pyobjc-dev] FYI: Open Source Scripting Layer For Cocoa

[Jack J. <Jac...@cw...>]

On Friday, Jun 6, 2003, at 11:35 Europe/Amsterdam, Dinu Gherman wrote:

>   Open Source Scripting Layer For Cocoa
>
>   Philippe Mougin writes "F-Script is a lightweight object-oriented
>   interactive and scripting layer specifically designed for Mac OS X
>   object system (i.e. Cocoa). F-Script version 1.2.4 greatly enhances
>   the integration between F-Script and Cocoa, and comes with extended
>   documentation.
>
>   http://www.macslash.org/articles/03/06/05/1446248.shtml

I had a look at it, uhm, half a year ago. It is only half a bridge, 
i.e. F-Script can use ObjC but not the other way around.

The main advantage it has over PyObjC is that it has an object/class 
browser and an interactive window. It's a bit clunky, but it gets you 
there quickly.

A second advantage is that it should be easy to incorporate in your 
ObjC program, according to their website.

And a final one, for ObjC programmers, is that the smalltalk dialect 
they use is closer to ObjC than Python is.

I think that if we want to think of using PyObjC to rule the world 
F-Script would be a good target. If we can incorporate the same 
functionality as it has it would make PyObjC useful to more people. 
I'll post a separate mail on the class browser in a minute.
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Jack Jansen, <Jac...@cw...>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
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