Indeed, this is important enough to mod up from the comments:
On September 26, the component object model (COM) application programming interface (API) for Google Earth 4 Beta for PC was given public documentation by its developers. Here it is. And here is the announcement on Google Earth Community. Much is made by the developers of the fact that this is a Beta release of the API, that there is no official support, that it could change at any moment, etc… Still, great news.
First impression: The vocabulary is much more extensive than the equivalent in AppleScript: Here’s hoping these can be made sufficiently functionally equivalent so that future helper applications can be ported with relative ease between operating systems. And I’m curious — is there an API waiting in the wings for the Linux version of Google Earth?
Isn’t the Linux version of GE still basically the Windows version plus a custom build of Wine? If so it might be quite hard to expose the COM API.
Google Earth for Linux (and for Mac) are native builds, using the Qt toolkit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(toolkit)
Perhaps you’re thinking of the Linux build of Picassa?
http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-May/047806.html
Jason
Absolutely GE4 for Linux does not use wine in any way in opposite to picasa ‘port’ done by the same person: Ryan C. Gordon aka ‘icullus’, very adequate person and widely known among linux gamers :)
i would love to see everything better and closer
Is there also some documentation about the AppleScript API?