Thanks for your message. Indeed, your solution for the Application folder example is much better than mine. I have updated the post with a new solution based on your approach. This gives us, in F-Script:

(Finder startupDisk folders objectWithName:’Applications’) files count

Cheers,

Philippe

One thing I’m not quite clear about though is the Applications folder example. If I understand correctly, you’re using two filter tests just to locate the Applications folder. Is there a reason you’re doing it that way, rather than using a property specifier followed by a by-name element specifier, which is the normal way to do it? i.e.:


Finder.startup_disk.folders['Applications'].count(:each => :file)


rather than:


folders = Finder.disks[its.startup.eq(true)].last.folders
appFolder = folders[its.name.eq('Applications')].last
appFolder.files.count(:each => :item)


which is more to type in and less efficient to evaluate.

BTW, I’ve been thinking for a while about adding a dynamic API to objc-appscript in order to make it easier to incorporate into interpreted languages that already have ObjC bindings. If you’ve any advice or suggestions on what sort of API design would be best suited for this I’d be very interested to hear.

Cheers,

has
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http://appscript.sourceforge.net
http://rb-appscript.rubyforge.org

Actually, the alpha version already uses BridgeSupport to provide access to symbolic constants, enums, etc. I will blog about that soon.

Unrelated, do you plan to use the new BridgeSupport files in FScript 2.0?

Laurent