[ANN] PreFab UI Actions Public Beta
[ANN] PreFab UI Actions Public Beta
- Subject: [ANN] PreFab UI Actions Public Beta
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 03:02:21 -0400
PreFab Software, Inc. and Bill Cheeseman are pleased to announce a public
beta test of their new product, PreFab UI Actions. It implements "universal
attachability" for AppleScript in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and newer.
With UI Actions, you attach a script to a native Mac OS X application, and
the script will be triggered automatically by user actions you specify, such
as opening or closing a window, selecting a menu item, editing a text field
and many others. An attached script can query the target application for
useful information about the user action that triggered it, including a
reference to the affected UI element and all of its attributes such as
position, size, title, role and value. Using this information, every
attached script can draw upon the full capabilities of AppleScript,
including Apple's new GUI Scripting, to amplify and enhance the power of the
target application.
Apple's Folder Actions and Digital Hub Actions are specialized tools that
let your scripts respond when the user performs narrowly defined tasks.
PreFab UI Actions is universal, allowing any accessible user interface
element in any application to trigger a script in response to any user
action. UI Actions opens up whole new worlds of possibilities.
Power users now have completely new ways to customize their Macintosh.
Technical staff and consultants can tailor off-the-shelf applications in
ways never before possible. Developers can target their products to specific
vertical markets without touching existing code.
UI Actions includes two bundled components. The Setup application gives you
a convenient manual interface to attach scripts and choose which user
interface notifications they respond to. A separate faceless background
application runs the attached scripts automatically every time a user makes
defined changes to the specified graphical user interface elements in the
target application. The background application is scriptable, so you can use
AppleScript to attach scripts when automated setup is needed.
Download the UI Actions public beta now at
http://www.prefab.com/uiactions/.
Send comments, suggestions and bug reports to email@hidden, and
mention "UI Actions public beta" in the subject line. The UI Actions public
beta is free of charge and fully functional, but it will expire on September
1, 2004 or 30 days after first use, whichever comes first. Version 1.0 is
scheduled for release by the end of July. UI Actions comes with complete
instructions and dozens of example UI Action scripts. Let us know how you
use UI Actions so we can expand our growing collection of tips.
PreFab Software, Inc. has unmatched experience controlling the GUI via
scripts, releasing PreFab Player in 1994 with continued sales and support
today for Mac OS 9 and earlier. In 2003, PreFab entered the world of Mac OS
X with PreFab UI Browser, a popular utility to support Apple's new GUI
Scripting technology and a useful companion to UI Actions. You can download
a fully-functional 30-day trial version of UI Browser at
http://www.prefab.com/uibrowser/. UI Actions and UI Browser are both based
on Bill Cheeseman's custom Cocoa framework for working with Apple's
Accessiblity API.
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Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
PreFab Software, Inc. - www.prefab.com/scripting.html
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