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Scripting Bridge

Scripting Bridge, introduced in Mac OS X version 10.5, provides an automated process for creating an Objective-C interface to scriptable applications. This allows Cocoa applications and other Objective-C code to efficiently access features of scriptable applications, using native Objective-C syntax. Some other scripting languages, such as Ruby and Python, can use also Scripting Bridge (they also have open-source software bridges to scriptable applications—RubyOSA and py-appscript). For more information, see Ruby and Python Programming Topics for Mac OS X.

To use Scripting Bridge, you add the Scripting Bridge framework to your application project and use command-line tools to generate the interface files for the scriptable application you want to target. Then in your application code, you obtain a reference to an application object for the targeted scriptable application and send Objective-C messages to it.

For details, see Scripting Bridge Programming Guide for Cocoa and Scripting Bridge Framework Reference. For related sample code, see ScriptingBridgeFinder.

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