[ANN] PreFab UI Browser 1.4
[ANN] PreFab UI Browser 1.4
- Subject: [ANN] PreFab UI Browser 1.4
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:01:32 -0400
PreFab Software has released version 1.4 of PreFab UI Browser. UI Browser
now supports all of the new GUI Scripting and accessibility enhancements
introduced by Apple in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
UI Browser is the "ultimate assistant" for Apple's GUI Scripting and
accessibility technologies. It helps you to explore, manipulate and monitor
the user interface of most Mac OS X applications running on your computer.
With the push of a button, it also generates AppleScript statements to
control even non-scriptable applications using GUI Scripting. No other
utility provides all of the information you need in order to write scripts
for GUI Scripting.
UI Browser 1.4 requires Mac OS X 10.3 Panther or newer, but it works best
with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. It is a recommended upgrade for all customers who
are running Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4. (UI Browser 1.4 no longer supports Mac OS
X 10.2 Jaguar.)
Download a free, full-featured 30-day trial version of UI Browser 1.4 now at
http://www.prefab.com/uibrowser/. This trial version will work even if you
tried an older version of UI Browser more than 30 days ago.
UI Browser 1.4 is a free upgrade for licensed users. The price for new users
is $55, with quantity discounts available.
What's New in UI Browser 1.4:
When running under Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, UI Browser 1.4 recognizes all of
Apple's enhancements to GUI Scripting and accessibility in Tiger, including
the following:
1. Several new kinds of UI elements. These include help tags, hyperlinks,
mattes, and text rulers (along with all of a text ruler's UI elements,
including tab markers).
2. Many new attributes. These include the new, enhanced Description
attribute, a new Top Level UI Element attribute that lets you access the
window, drawer or sheet containing a UI element, or the list containing a
Dock item, and a dozen others that are available in some UI elements. In
addition, a new attribute for strings lets you access the fonts, Web links
and other formatting features of text strings in text views and text fields.
3. New actions to open a menu and to delete a marker on a text ruler.
4. New notifications, including Title Changed, Selected Text Changed,
Selected Children Changed, and many others.
5. Improvements in Apple's GUI Scripting technology, including navigation
between UI elements, such as parent and children elements, and the ability
to Set Size and Set Position of windows reliably.
6. UI Browser now comes with a collection of advanced GUI Scripting script
examples requiring Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, including scripts demonstrating how
to execute commands in Dock items and in Menu Extras at the right end of the
menu bar. (Too late for inclusion, we have discovered that UI elements in
the Tiger Spotlight search window are accessible, too, making this window
accessible to GUI Scripting.)
UI Browser 1.4 also includes several minor bug fixes.
More info: http://www.prefab.com/uibrowser/
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Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA
http://www.quecheesoftware.com
PreFab Software - http://www.prefab.com/scripting.html
The AppleScript Sourcebook - http://www.AppleScriptSourcebook.com
Vermont Recipes - http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/VermontRecipes
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