AppleScript source file is indeed packaged inside that app at this location as a copy of your source whenever you make a new app bundle. Given that AppleScript is an interpreted scripting language I would suspect the. It also includes the MacOS folder which is where the actual executable lives.
It has a info plist file describing some information about the application as well as a resources folder that may include static assets for the app like images for its ui. This will reveal the Contents folder inside. In the Finder you can also right click an app bundle and "Show contents". If you navigate to it via the command line it will become evident It is a folder/directory/bundle (choose your terminology) not just a single file.app bundles have a specific structure such that macOS can load them as if they were executables. It may look and behave as a file, but will (at least generally for. AppleScript/.scrpt files are indeed most likely your source files. They are just part of the name and give clues to software on how to interpret files, but any file can have any extension. I don't really want to learn all that at my age so I am wondering if AppleScript is reaching the end and could be dropped altogether.ĪppleScript is not something I often work with but here's some general information.įirst of all, extensions are kind of a lie. I have been told that Xcode 14 no longer offers the option to make AppleScrip projects and its all about Swift now. Is AppleScript Nearly At The End Of Life ? I think this is where I lost some of my test scripts earlier by editing the wrong one and maybe deleting the wrong one. So what is the difference between editing the. applescript file although I have noticed that you can alo load the. Does this include the source code ?ĭo I edit the. When you choose Save As and select Application, this makes. I presume this is just the main script file, the source code. When saving the file as text in either Script Editor or Script debugger they produce one of the above files. Having lost some practice code through deleting the wrong stuff, I need to understand some differences here. I seem to have have the bug and am enjoying exploring the AppleScript stuff, ok, so I am probably 20+ years late to the partyb
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