Felt Tip Blog App Sandboxing and Sound Studio

The App Sandboxing deadline was June 1, so what does that mean for Sound Studio? For now, not much, since the app isn't currently sandboxed in the Mac App Store. I managed to submit a big update before the deadline, and now I have to work on some things to get it sandboxed.There were some things I did change in the current version of Sound Studio to accomodate sandboxing. First is that the Scratch Disk is no longer selectable in the Preferences. I don't think many people were using that. Second is that Split By Markers now prompts for the Save location every time you use it. Third is that saving and deleting Presets is now a bit different, so you no longer can open the Presets in the Finder to manage them.These were all because with App Sandboxing, the app can no longer write to any arbitrary location in your disk. It has to prompt you every time it wants to write something somewhere outside of its sandbox. And files inside the sandbox are private, so they're not supposed to be visible in the Finder.But there's one thing that sandboxing breaks, and because of it, I didn't turn it on for the latest release: Monbots, which are batch processing mini applets that work with Sound Studio. The problem is Monbots use AppleScript, and while using AppleScript to send events to Sound Studio still works, the scripts can no longer save to an arbitrary location on the disk. So the AppleScript "save" command no longer works when sandboxing is turned on.One option I have is to prompt the user every time the AppleScript "save" command is invoked, but because the Monbots are supposed to work silently on batches of files, prompting to save every file is not realistic. Another option is to rewrite the Monbots to save in the same location as the original files, but I didn't write the Monbots and they're in AppleScript, so that's a lot of work. A third option is to rewrite the Monbot's functionality as a new batch processing command within Sound Studio, but that's also a lot of work, and I wouldn't be able to finish it in time for the deadline.So for now it's not sandboxed, and I'm weighing my options.-Lucius