“What I might try is installing my beloved UltraStudio via CrossOver.”

You may not need to do all that: UltraEdit for Mac :)

Just looking quickly at the screenshots (which seem nice) and reading the features you may also want to try BBEdit which has many similarities (ie: projects, built in ftp, svn support and extensive search capabilities with the option of using grep) and has a long history on the Mac with a good mailing list.

Have fun!

I'll check BBEdit out. Thanks for the tip!

One other idea that occurred vis-a-vis perl & xcode is:

set output to do shell script "<somehow get the name of my perl script
+ and any args here>"
[download]

i.e. Disguise perl proj's as applescript projects with a simple applescript to run the actual perl and grab the output.

I am having fun right enough. Maybe too much!

These should help:

• MacOSX Developer Library, Apple Technical Note TN2065 — do shell script in AppleScript
• AppleScript the Definitive Guide by Matt Neuburg (Contributing Editor of TidBITS)
  • There is an example in the book where he builds a little web client (curl) using Perl to parse URLs and titles from a TidBITS search results page.

* FYI: Executing Perl scripts from within Cocoa applications built in XCode IS possible. You would create a new project, add a new file, then under 'Other' select 'Shell Script' (not 'pure' Perl). However, even if you *only* plan to use AppleScript for your Cocoa app, this is a pretty top heavy approach.

Apologies for not being more clear earlier.

UPDATE
Thursday, Nov 3, 2011 :: 7:59 PM	Added note on executing Perl shell scripts from within XCode.



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