On Jul 28, 2007, at 2:19 PM, 12 34 wrote: > John Joyce wrote: >> On Jul 28, 2007, at 2:07 PM, 12 34 wrote: >> >>> Select folders (show the last selection used as the default, even if >>> XCode. >>> >>> >>> >> Consider Rails, but there is a lot to learn there. It's Ruby, but not >> quite like working with a usual script. >> Perhaps easier, and definitely native GUI look, consider Platypus: >> http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus > > I had downloaded Platypus and didn't see anything about selecting > files > and folders. But maybe I don't know the terminology. > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > I hate to say it, but read the docs for it. I've never used it, but on macosxhints.com (a good source for things like this for OS X) it is pretty highly rated. It also gets mentioned on various cocoa and os x prorgramming mailing lists pretty often. Short of learning Rails or learning Cocoa. you could also look into RubyCocoa, but you'll still need a book on XCode and some understanding of Cocoa framework to really start to make something, you might checkout the WROX publishing book (one of the red ones) Beginning OS X Programming. They might talk about some of this stuff, but I don't recall. If there is one thing I have learned about programming, it's the GUI part of frameworks that can be hard. But rewarding too! If you do choose to go the XCode route, you will find that it's actually pretty easy to build the interface in XCode, it's just a little confusing about how to wire everything up. If you plan to do more of these, then you really should go out and get Aaron Hillegass' book Cocoa Programming for OS X, it's the 'pickaxe' book of OS X programming. A new version will be out at the end of this year or early next year, but it's still a worthwhile purchase if you're into OS X programming at all. OH, wait a second, there is one more alternative: AppleScript. There is also an AppleScript gem to allow you to use Ruby with applescript a little differently. AppleScript can also create fully GUI apps. but again, you'll want one of the books on AppleScript before jumping into that. The language itself is not hard, and it gives you a lot of hooks in to a lot of OS X apps.