About objc-appscript

Objc-appscript is a high-level Apple event bridge that allows you to control scriptable Mac OS X applications from Objective-C programs.

For example, to get the value of the first paragraph of the topmost document in TextEdit:

TEApplication *textedit = [[TEApplication alloc] initWithName: @"TextEdit"];

TEReference *ref = [[[[textedit documents] byName: @"ReadMe"] paragraphs] at: 1];

NSString *result = [[ref get] send];

[textedit release];

This is equivalent to the AppleScript statement:

tell application "TextEdit"
    get paragraph 1 of document "ReadMe"
end tell

ObjC-appscript requires MacOS X 10.3 or later.

Notes

Please note that objc-appscript is currently under active development, with some APIs and functionality not yet implemented and others likely to change later on as the design is refined.

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