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[Bob Sneidar]

I got pretty good at it, way back when developers who really believed in it made their documentation fairly usable. The trouble with Applescript is that you are entirely dependent on the really sparse, often wholly inadequate or incomplete app dictionaries (if there even is one), and on public forums. The syntax one app uses to access data, may not be exactly the same in another. Some support enumeration (working with multiple instances of an object as opposed to only one at a time) and other do not. Some apps only partially support a library. Trial and error, mostly error, is what is in store for you if you want to script an app. 

Working through all of that is a long, long row to hoe for even a seasoned developer, and is IMHO the primary reason that Applescript was not more widely adopted. 

Bob

 
On Sep 10, 2012, at 3:39 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 9/10/12 2:56 PM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
>> 
>> Ken Ray's script almost looks intelligible to me; I wrote some AS
>> scripts about 30 years ago. But I am too old and feeble to see where
>> this ties in.
> 
> I couldn't master AppleScript even when I wasn't old and feeble. :) Sounds like maybe it's time to look into sockets.