What is Loader?
Loader is a special library that makes it extremely easy to load, or “bind”, libraries [in]to other scripts. Most languages come with a built-in library-loading mechanism as standard; however, the AppleScript language does not. Loader has been created by experienced AppleScript users specifically to address this deficiency, making libraries [almost] as easy to use in AppleScript as they are in other languages. Loader is a powerful and sophisticated tool that can locate libraries stored in several locations and manage even complex interdependencies between multiple libraries with ease, yet simple enough for beginners to use. All the libraries you’ll find on appleMods are Loader-compatible, by the way. [Although some non-Loader-compatible libraries are still offered, for historical purposes, in the ‘strange archive’.] Loader automates the tedious process of locating and loading AppleScript libraries on any OS8/9/X system: – It provides a standard location, the ASLibraries folder, in whic
