10.11 Changes
This article describes changes to AppleScript and related tools in OS X El Capitan v10.11.
Folder Actions
Folder Actions now reliably notices all added and removed items in an observed folder.
Script Library Locations
AppleScript now has two additional search mechanisms when searching for script libraries:
Script libraries may now be located in any installed application bundle, in the
Contents/Library/Script Libraries
directory of the bundle. This allows distributing libraries that are associated with an application, or creating applications that exist solely to distribute libraries.The environment variable
OSA_LIBRARY_PATH
may be used to add more locations to search for script libraries. This allows using a library without installing it in one of the usual locations. The variable’s value is a colon-separated list of absolute POSIX paths, such asOSA_LIBRARY_PATH='/opt/local/Script Libraries:/usr/local/Script Libraries'
.
For complete details, see Creating a Library in the AppleScript Language Guide.
AppleScriptObjC
AppleScriptObjC now bridges several more types. As usual with AppleScriptObjC, conversion is automatic when passing an AppleScript object to an Objective-C method; converting an Objective-C object to an AppleScript value requires explicit coercion using as
.
Most
struct
types are bridged to records and vice versa. Lists are also bridged tostructs
if the elements are in the correct order. Previously, onlyNSRange
,NSSize
,NSPoint
, andNSRect
were bridged.struct
types with bitfield members are still not supported. [20297172]File objects (
file
,alias
, andPOSIX file
) are now bridged toNSURL
;NSURL
objects with a scheme offile
are bridged toalias
. [20891802]date
objects are now bridged toNSDate
and vice versa. NOTE: Converting betweendate
andNSDate
is inherently imprecise:date
has a resolution of exactly one second over its entire range, and is relative to the current time zone;NSDate
has a variable resolution (for practical purposes, one to ten microseconds), and is a specific point in time. [20891805]
Bug Fixes
AppleScript now reliably recognizes constant and enumeration values from Objective-C frameworks. [18778520]
Coercing NSNumber
objects to real
no longer truncates double-precision numbers to single-precision. (someNSNumber's doubleValue
has always worked correctly.) [18819219]
Coercing NSString
objects to string
now functions the same as coercing to text
or Unicode text
, preserving all characters. [18098890]
Other Bug Fixes
delay
now functions correctly in applets, waiting for the full specified time. [18963858]
Developer Notes
OSACopyScriptingDefinitionFromURL
now works correctly if given a file:
URL. [14298245]
In an sdef, access-group
elements on a suite
are now correctly inherited by all the sub-elements, including class-extension
elements. [19966017]
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