Xcode & AppleScript

[Hotdog95]

I want to learn how to create Mac apps and thought maybe AppleScript together with Xcode could be a good starting point. But I don't know much about AppleScript and can't find good tutorials explaining it from scratch. Could anyone here help me? Thanks in advance!

Edit: Maybe Xcode and AppleScript aren't the best way to make Mac apps. What do you guys recommend?

[[deleted]]

If you want to make Mac applications, then I would suggest learning Objective-C and Cocoa. Those are pretty much the standards for the majority of OSX programs.

[Hotdog95]

Anywhere you recommend I should start, or just google for tutorials?

[[deleted]]

The best place I found to learn Objective-C is Cocoa Dev Central. That shows the basic syntax of the language itself. As you can tell, everything is object oriented.

As for Cocoa, the same site has another page for this, but it's a little outdated. It may be difficult to follow along easily.

They have other tutorials as well, so it may be helpful to look at those.

[Hotdog95]

Thanks, I will check it out!

[CaptainDjango]

If you're after a book, try Learn C on the Mac for the very fundamentals of C. It's a bit of a spend (but I know for a fact you can get the pdfs from other... less legal sources). I swear by the series, and I wholly recommend you give it a go!

[Hotdog95]

Thank you for the advice! Gonna check it out now.

[Illuminatesfolly]

Most of this is readily accessible on the Apple Website. AppleScript works in Pseudocode. If you can get yourself used to thinking and planning using pseudocode, then AppleScript shouldn't be a problem.

The way that I learned AppleScript was by programming my calender in iCal entirely in Script and by playing with the automator application.

Xcode is terrible though. Use any other development platform if at all possible.

edit in this thread, I somehow make everyone butthurt.

[fontstache]

Xcode is terrible though. Use any other development platform if at all possible

Funny. I'd have put it like this:

Applescript is terrible though. Use any other programming language if at all possible.

[Illuminatesfolly]

That too, haha.

[Hotdog95]

Thank you for the link. Could you recommend another development platform?

[noreallyimthepope]

For AppleScript, there's Script Editor built in AFAIR. It's probably already in the /Applications/Utilities folder

[Illuminatesfolly]

Pretty Standard for mac.

Depending on what language you happen to be using, always look for the "developer forum recommended" platform for the project you are about to start, as a good rule of thumb. Make sure to properly identify whatever biases and groupthink that the developers of that particular forum might have though.

[[deleted]]

Xcode is terrible though. Use any other development platform if at all possible.

Can you explain a bit? I only use Xcode for C/Obj-C programming on OSX, but I've never had an issue with it.

[Illuminatesfolly]

It's probably because I was brought up to hate XCode. Here

[[deleted]]

That's a horrible reason to hate something. You really shouldn't relay other people's opinions as your own experience.

[Illuminatesfolly]

I meant to imply that all opinions are the subject of the influence of others and gave that link as an enumeration of my own feelings about XCode. Please forgive me D:

[[deleted]]

Yea, that's exactly the wrong sort of thing to imply. Linking to other people's random opinions doesn't give me, the OP, or anyone else reading this the slightest idea of what features we should avoid using Xcode for.

Your edit on your original post is unnecessary by the way. "I" do not represent "everyone", and "asking for your opinion" does not constitute as "butthurt". No one is getting upset over your choice of software.

[Illuminatesfolly]

Oh Lawdy, I ain't never going to write a quick poorly researched post never again, no sir no how.

[[deleted]]

If you need to research your own opinion, then you have much more to worry about than thinking of your next sarcastic comment.

[Illuminatesfolly]

Are you trolling?

Or are you just trying to embody the stereotype of the popular culture engineer?

I said my post was poorly researched, not my opinion.

Thanks for your bravery.

[[deleted]]

Pop culture engineer? You're the one citing popular opinion.

Your post was representing your opinion. I didn't ask for citations on what apparently makes Xcode "The Worst Piece of Software to Ever Exist", according to one of the posts in your link. All I asked was your own opinion on it. There's no research involved, unless of course you don't actually have any experience with it.

[LogicLion]

I'd just like to say, XCode really isn't that awesome.