Re: Recording
Re: Recording
- Subject: Re: Recording
- From: Rob Jorgensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 23:18:05 -0400
At 8:00 PM -0600 8/22/03, Clark Goble wrote:
___ Rob ___
| QuickTime Player, Tex-Edit Plus, BBEdit, Script Debugger, URL
| Manager Pro (to some degree), and Interarchy v5 are all
| recordable in OS X. I'd guess that there are others.
___
I hadn't notice that about BBEdit. I'm not sure what I'd script QT
Player to do. The other programs I'm not really familiar with.
They aren't significant productivity programs.
I guess that depends on how one defines productivity. Contrary to
popular opinion, not everyone needs Adobe and/or Microsoft apps to be
productive. Give someone a copy of Script Debugger and BBEdit and you
might be shocked at what can be accomplished.
Of the Apple programs (minus QT Player) none of them are recordable
that I can see. MS Word & Excel have recordable Visual Basic Macros
(and Real Basic?) but not Applescript. None of the Adobe programs I
checked were recordable (Acrobat Reader, Photoshop, GoLive)
AppleWorks isn't either.
Hopefully since Apple is updating a lot of its applications for
Panther this will be added to at least a few. (And honestly a few
of them could have better scripting entirely.)
Other than Finder, I would be surprised to see recordability added to
Apple apps that do not have it. If faced with the choice of one or
the other, I prefer that they concentrate on improving overall
scriptability. People can be taught how to write scripts without
recording them but even experienced scripters are limited by poor
AppleScript support.
-- Rob
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